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WHO IS THE BEAST? 



BY 
REV. L. L. PICKETT, Evangelist. 

Author of "The Danger Signal," "The Book and Its 

Theme/' "The Booze Devil," "Uncle Sam or the Pope, 

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INTRODUCTION. 



There are three things the reading public takes 
into account in the consideration of a new book. 
The Title, the Author, and the Contents. 

The title of the present volume catches the eye, 
engages the attention, excites the curiosity, ap- 
peals to patriotism and concerns the students of 
prophecy. In the red-light of the world-wide, rec- 
ord-breaking war of the Ages many have viewed 
His ''Imperial Majesty" Wilhelm Hohenzollern — 
"Kaiser Bill" — not only as the beast of Berlin, 
but as the real prophetic beast described in the 
thirteenth chapter of the book of Revelation. 
They have a line on him and have found his num- 
ber to be 666. 

The real identity of the famous wild beast of 
prophecy is fully revealed in this book. Let the 
reader carefully peruse its pages and follow the 
discussion to its legitimate conclusion and he will 
see for himself that the authors have struck the 
right trail and traced the monster to his proper 
historical habitat. 

The key to the interpretation of the book is 
found in the fact that the monarchy vision of 
Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2) covers the same his- 
toric order as the beast vision (Dan. 7), and that 
they synchronize with the "Times of the Gen- 
tiles." The great man image portrayed in the 

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4 INTRODUCTION. 

dream of the King coincides with the fourfold 
beast image described in the vision of the prophet, 
representing that long political period on the cal- 
endar of the ages, known as the 'Times of the 
Gentiles/' The former sees the external splendor 
of the world-government while the latter, viewing 
it from the divine perspective observes its true 
beast-like, rapacious character. As Joseph said of 
Pharoah's dream concerning the fat and the lean 
cattle and the full ears and thin ears of corn — 
"the dream is one," so the authors very correctly 
contend that the Image of the Man (Dan. 2), and 
the vision of the beasts (Dan. 7) are one — that 
they refer to the same period of world-govern- 
ment, known as the "Times of the Gentiles." As 
the great Image, from head to toe, reaches the 
entire length of the Gentile era, so the beasts 
form one continuous chain that runs parallel with 
the Image. Hence, they found the tracks of the 
beast scattered all along the highway of history, 
from the days of Babylonian supremacy to the 
present time. 

This grand historical perspective enables the 
authors to identify the famous beast as he ap- 
pears in his final form, just previous to the Sec- 
ond Coming of Christ. 

This treatise, in our opinion, more than any 
we have ever read on the subject, represents th£ 
golden mean between the opposing views of the 
Preterest and Futurist. It unravels the mysteries 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

that have puzzled so many people on this very 
question. 

We bespeak for the book a wide circulation. It 
has literary merit as well as strong gospel food, 
and reliable information on one of the greatest 
questions in the religious world of the present 
day. 

It is not necessary to say anything in the way 
of introduction so far as the authors are con- 
cerned. They are both well-known, Rev. L. L. 
Pickett, who is the author of many excellent vol- 
umes, is considered one of the very best posted 
men in the United States on the subject of the 
Second Coming of Christ. We might say that he 
is authority on the subject. 

Rev. C. F. Wimberly, D.D., who collaborates 
with him in the production of the book, also wields 
a facile pen. He is the author of a number of 
religious works, such as, "Is the Devil a Myth?" 
and "Behold, the Morning!" etc., etc. 

This great book, written by two such promi- 
nent authors and deep students of prophecy as 
Pickett and Wimberly ought to sell like "hot 
cakes" from one end of this country to the other. 

If these few introductory remarks have sharp- 
ened the appetite of the reader for the main con- 
tents of the book, we pass him on without further 
ceremony to the great treat in store for him. 

Andrew Johnson. 



A PERSONAL WORD. 



The subject of this book has been growing on 
me for some time. Its correctness! has been con- 
firmed by careful consideration of all phases of 
the question. The controversial elements have 
been weighed pro and con. I believe herein is the 
truth, and the truth only. 

The futurist school of interpreters have for 
some time had "the floor." They have spoken as 
if their view was beyond controversy. We be- 
lieve this presentation is true, and being true, is 
greatly needed. We are in nowise afraid of the 
closest examination' of the positions herein as- 
sumed and of the investigations herein set forth. 
Truth is no ostrich ; it hides not its head ; it fears 
not the light. 

I am an ardent pre-millennialist. My writings 
give my reasons. We are in "the last days." The 
coming of the King draweth nigh. Satan hath 
great wrath, for he knoweth that his time is short. 
The forces of hell, the powers of darkness, array 
themselves. The Beast will ere long be manifest 
in his true character. 

I was delighted to find, after some careful study 
together, that my friend and associate, Bro. Wim- 
berly, saw the truth as it had dawned so clearly 
on me. It gratified me to have him unite with 
me in bringing out this volume. He is a lover 

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A PERSONAL WORD. 7 

of truth, a student of the Bible, an earnest con- 
tender for right. We believe our joint labors here- 
in worthy of careful study and so commend it to 
the prayerful consideration of those who desire to 
know the truth. 

L. L. Pickett. 
October, 1918. 



CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER I. 
Times of the Gentiles 11 

CHAPTER II. 
Natural or Fleshly Israel 16 

CHAPTER III. 
The Great Image 34 

CHAPTER IV. 
The Reign of the Beast 46 

CHAPTER V. 
Who is the "Little Horn?" 53 

CHAPTER VI. 
Another Little Horn 61 

CHAPTER VII. 
The Beast Located and Identified 67 

CHAPTER VIII. 
What are the Beasts? 74 

CHAPTER IX. 
When Shall These Things Be? 82 

CHAPTER X. 
The Two Horns Like a Lamb 93 

CHAPTER XI. 
When will the Beast be King of the World?. .102 

CHAPTER XII. 
The False Prophet 105 



CHAPTER XIII. 
Is the Beast the Antichrist? 108 

CHAPTER XIV. 
The Man of Sin 115 

CHAPTER XV. 
What of Babylon? 121 

CHAPTER XVI. 
Some Traits of the Harlot Babylon 131 

CHAPTER XVII. 
A Camouflage 136 

, CHAPTER XVIII. 
The Three Spirits Like Frogs 141 

CHAPTER XIX. 
The Infernal Trinity 148 

CHAPTER XX. 
Armageddon 155 

CHAPTER XXI. 
What About Nero? 167 

CHAPTER XXII. 
Is the Kaiser the Beast? 171 

CHAPTER XXIII. 
The Wounded Head 176 

CHAPTER XXIV. 
The Pope and the World War 184 

CHAPTER XXV. 
The Irish Situation , 194 

Appendix 198 



CHAPTER I. 

Times of the Gentiles. 

In Luke (21 :24), we are told by our Lord that, 
"Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles 
until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." In a 
similar strain, Paul tells us in his Epistle to the 
Romans (11:25), "that blindness in part (such as 
will make it difficult to reach them) is happened 
unto Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be 
come in." We shall have much use for the term 
"the times of the Gentiles." Let us inquire, there- 
fore, for the meaning of the Scriptural expres- 
sion. It has no reference to the mere preaching 
of the gospel to the Gentiles. It is a term that re- 
fers to world dominion. It began with the ruler- 
ship of Nebuchadnezzar, and extends to the sec- 
ond coming of our Lord. It was preceded by the 
theocratic government of Israel and will be suc- 
ceeded by the new world theocracy of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. The period is definitely defined. 
It has its metes and bounds. During this period 
the Israelites are without a government of their 
own, without national standing in the world. 
They have a distinct racial existence, but not a 
national or governmental standing. They are so- 
cially ostracized. To get a clear understanding of 

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12 Who is the Beast? 

the purpose, metes and bounds of the Gentile 
times much light will be thrown on the Bible. A 
clear understanding of the term will furnish the 
key to the interpretation of many misunderstood 
prophecies. With this key we can readily find the 
solution of many other questions ; and particular- 
ly, the subject of this book: "Who is the Beast?" 

For a beginning of this timely theme let us first 
apply ourselves to a study of Israel. These people 
are the natural descendants of Abraham through 
Isaac and Jacob. There is a fleshly Israel, of which 
there were ten tribes, whose identity has been 
lost. Beside them we have the tribe of Judah 
merged with the descendants of Joseph, and 
known to the world under the title — "Jews." Let 
the reader carefully examine the writings of Paul, 
especially Romans (see 9:1-4; 10:1-4, 21 and 11: 
3, 8-12), and we find besides fleshly Israel, the 
natural descendants of Abraham through Jacob, 
there is a spiritual Israel. This is composed of 
those who are the faithful children of God, both 
Jew and Gentile. (See Romans 2 :28, 29 ; 3 :20-29 
and 4 :8-18 ; Gal. 3 :26-29.) Abraham is the fath- 
er then of a natural or fleshly seed, the Jews, and 
a supernatural, or spiritual seed, of all such as 
are the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, 
who is Himself "the Seed" through whom eternal 
life is given to man (Gal. 3:16). 

To the fleshly offspring of Abraham, God prom- 
ised, and — through Moses and Joshua — gave the 



Who is the Beast? 13 

land of Canaan, which we now call Palestine 
(Gen. 12 ;6, 7; 17:8). This country, known as 
the Land of Promise, belongs pre-eminently to 
the Jews, and to them alone. Since God gave it 
to Abraham, no other nation has ever prospered 
in the land of Canaan. It is manifest that no 
other nation will prosper there. To the Children 
of Israel, Canaan was a land flowing with milk 
and honey. When they are restored to the land of 
their fathers we may expect to see that country 
flourish again, even as of old. Had they remained 
faithful and obedient they would have never been 
driven from this fertile and prosperous country. 
To this day they would have been a mighty and a 
happy people. But to all others, who are inter- 
lopers and trespassers, the land has been poor 
and life has been miserable. Toil has been spent 
in vain, poverty and sorrow have been their por- 
tion. 

The Jews, because of transgression, have for a 
season been driven from their inheritance. When 
they shall have abandoned their sins, returned to 
their land and to their God, by accepting Jesus 
as the Messiah and King, the Divine blessing shall 
once more be poured upon the land. Its beauty 
and fertility shall be fully restored and it will be 
as when they first inhabited it, a fertile, pleasant 
and delightsome country. It is a land of promise 
for the children of promise. To them — when they 
live in obedience and faithfulness — it will be a 



14 Who is the Beast? 

home unsurpassed in everything that makes for 
happiness. 

The reader will recall that for multitude the 
seed of Abraham has been compared to two in- 
numerable things, viz., "the sand," which evi- 
dently represents fleshly Israel; and "the stars," 
which undoubtedly signifies the spiritual descend- 
ants of Abraham. The sands and the stars are 
alike innumerable; they could not be counted. One 
pertains to the earth, the other to the heavens. 
The children of Israel, the fleshly seed, are com- 
pared to the sand. This may seem strange, for 
the Jews have never been at any one time a great 
nation. But we must remember that nearly four 
thousand years have gone by since God made this 
promise to the old patriarch. There are more 
than eleven million Jews living at this time. If 
they have averaged six millions for each genera- 
tion since the days of their great progenitor, their 
numbers would extend into billions. But the end 
is not yet. When Jesus returns and the Jewish 
people accept Him as their Messiah, they will, un- 
der the Divine blessing, become the leading nation 
of the world, and their numbers will extend be- 
yond computation. 

How about "the stars"? These constitute a 
symbolic representation of the innumerable chil- 
dren of God by faith, that faith which was ex- 
emplified in Abraham. He is called "the father 
of the faithful," even of all them which believe. 



Who is the Beast? 15 

From all parts of the world, from every nation, 
and from every tongue, these followers of the 
faithful Abraham will come trooping up in the 
great day to be recognized as heirs of the promise 
through Jesus Christ, the seed of Abraham, the 
Son of man, the Son of God. (See Ezek. 36:24- 
38 and 37:21-26; Zech. 2:4, 5; 8:13-23; Hab. 2: 
14.) 



CHAPTER II. 
Natural or Fleshly Israel. 

God demanded of the Jews perfect obedience 
and exhorted them to faithfulness. He promised 
that if they would always be true and obedient, 
He would be their God and their King. (See Lev. 
26:1-13, which please read carefully.) On condi- 
tion of their faithfulness and their observance of 
His laws, He promised to be their strength, their 
defense, their support and exceeding great re- 
ward. (Gen. 15 :1 ; Ps. 84 :11 ; Prov. 11 :18.) With 
God Himself as their King, Ruler, and Lord, what 
a glorious and mighty nation they would have be- 
come. His leadership would have made them a 
great people indeed. He would have subdued all 
their enemies before them. They would have be- 
come established and strengthened as a nation 
so that no power could overthrow or harm them. 

Jehovah's plan was to give the world through 
the Jews a pure theocracy; a government that 
would represent His own mind and will in na- 
tional life and character, as well as in individual 
holiness. He purposed to make of Israel a nation 
that would be to other nations an example, a pat- 
tern in righteousness, truth and prosperity. He 
would have doubtless used them as sub-rulers and 

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Who is the Beast? 17 

— through their leadership among the nations — 
would have brought mankind back from a life of 
sin to righteousness and salvation. Justice in 
government, and righteousness in individual char- 
acter, would have made of the Jews what He in- 
tended them to be in the beginning, a "peculiar 
people, an holy nation," and hence the light of the 
world, the salt of the earth. 

But the descendants of Jacob were stupefied by 
sin, blinded by selfishness and perverted by ignor- 
ance. They would not rest satisfied under the 
restrictions placed upon them by Infinite Holiness. 
They set aside the Word of God, despised His 
judgments, and refused obedience to His counsels. 
In short, they were not satisfied with the Divine 
administration. Accordingly, they demanded for 
themselves a king "like the nations round about 
them." God bade His prophet Samuel to remon- 
strate with them, to plead with them that they be 
true to Him and walk in the light of His justice 
and love. The faithful prophet did so. He re- 
minded them that God had brought them out of 
Egypt with a great deliverance He told them how 
kind and faithful Jehovah had been ; how He had 
supplied their needs, screened them from their 
enemies, and had been their shelter in time of 
storm. His plea was earnest, fervent and mighty. 
But they persisted in their clamorous demands for 
a king. God yielded. He allowed them a king 
even as they themselves had determined (I Sam. 



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10: 18, 19). God said to Samuel, "They have not 
rejected you, but they have rejected me from be- 
ing king over them." Thus Jehovah's law and 
authority were repudiated, His mercies despised, 
His plea spurned, His blessings trampled beneath 
their wayward feet. The result : They came un- 
der the judgments that He had threatened against 
them for disobedience. 

Still, the Almighty loved these wandering sons 
of Jacob, and faithfully sought to save them and 
hold them unto Himself. While He granted their 
rebellious demands for a king, yet He sought to 
make even this blunder work out for their good by 
Himself choosing their ruler. The first choice fell 
on Saul, a mighty and very promising character. 
God first of all visited the chosen king, gave him 
a new heart, poured upon him His Spirit, and 
sought to so guide the young king that the nation 
might be led in paths of righteousness and peace. 
(1 Sam. 10:9-13.) But Saul fell away. He be- 
came guilty before God, committing great wicked- 
ness. Of course, Jehovah rejected the rebel, and 
we hear him complaining to Samuel, "God will 
not hear my prayer." And so this once mighty 
monarch listens to the cantillations of the witch 
of Endor. The final result was, Saul died a sui- 
cide under the wrath of God, and was evidently 
lost (1 Sam. 31). 

God next chose David, a ruddy youth of simple 
habits and excellent spirit — who became a wise 



Who is the Beast? 19 

ruler, and a great king. Under David, Israel con- 
quered her enemies, drove out her foes, enlarged 
her borders, and prospered greatly. But even this 
singularly good man fell into grievous sin and 
brought the curse of the Almighty upon his own 
family and his dynasty. Outside of this one great 
transgression, it is said that David was "a man 
after God's own heart." Had all of Israel's kings 
proven true, the theocracy would have stood, God 
would have demonstrated the power of a righteous 
government, and through them would have blessed 
and uplifted the world. But their sins increased, 
their transgressions multiplied; their kings be- 
came more and more rebellious, while the masses 
descended deeper and yet deeper into idolatries. 
We need not go into detail. It is unnecessary to 
follow the career of Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Manas- 
seh, Ahab, nor even of Solomon, the greatly gifted 
son of David. Yet, with all his gifts and talents, 
we learn, through Nehemiah, that "outlandish 
women" led him into sin (Neh. 13:26). Wicked- 
ness, then as always, brought trouble upon Israel 
and defeat upon her armies. Consequently, God 
rejected the chosen people. He had said to them 
by His servant of old, "If ye shall despise my 
statutes," so that ye break my covenant," 
"I will set my face against you, and ye shall 
be slain before your enemies." Lev. 26: 
16, 17). Jehovah was under no obligations 
to these rebels. They had sinned against Him; 



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and rejected Him, and were in turn rejected. 
What was the result? That which might have 
been expected. He gave them over to their own 
wickedness and allowed them to reap the bitter 
fruits of their rebellions. In the days of Nebu- 
chadnezzar, this world-conqueror sent against Je- 
rusalem a mighty army. They ©wept away all op- 
position, overwhelmed the armies of defense and 
the Holy City fell. While Jerusalem bears among 
the nations the sacred title "Holy City," yet it 
has been a place of rebellion and of much sin; 
for its transgressions the people were driven into 
bondage; they were put to the sword. The king 
and the choicest of his people were carried away 
into captivity and subjected to Babylonian bond- 
age. The kingdom departed from Israel, its gov- 
ernment was overthrown, though God's chosen 
people, they now became a race of subjects. From 
that day till this the Israelites have had no gov- 
ernment of their own, no king of their own race. 
Other nations have ruled over them. They have 
been driven forth into all the world, scattered 
among the nations; exiled and oppressed, they 
have suffered greatly. They seem to have been 
forsaken of God and despised by all men. (See 
Dan. 1:1-3; II Kings 24:1-4.) 

All this had been foretold by Moses and their 
prophets. They had been warned of the results 
of transgression, but in blindness and perversity 
of heart they went forward into transgressions, 



Who is the Beast? 21 

and the results were the afflictions which have 
been portrayed in the Word of God. They were 
Driven into Exile for "Seven Times." 
If the reader will turn to Leviticus (26:14-46) 
he will find a curse was pronounced upon Israel 
in case of rebellion and disobedience. The 
thoughtful reader will find it greatly to his ad- 
vantage to stop here and carefully read this pas- 
sage. We will not quote it for the lack of space, 
but it is worthy of mature consideration. A num- 
ber of things will evidently impress the thought- 
ful reader: 

(1) There is pronounced a curse upon Israel, in 
which the Lord said, If ye "will not do all these 
commandments" I will punish you. God demand- 
ed most emphatically perfect obedience and 
threatened dire punishment upon disobedience, 
(v. 15.) 

(2) The type of punishment is varied. "I will 
appoint over you terror, consumption and the 
burning ague, that will consume the eyes and 
cause sorrow of heart ; ye shall sow your seed in 
vain, for your enemies shall eat it." He further 
declares that they should be slain by their ene- 
mies, and adds, "They that hate you shall reign 
over you, and ye shall flee when none pursueth." 
(vs. 16, 17.) 

(3) Because of their rebellions God declares, 
"I will break the pride of your power ; I will make 
your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass. 



22 Who is the Beast? 

Your strength shall be spent in vain, for your 
land , shall not yield her increase, neither shall the 
trees of the land yield their fruit." (vs. 19, 20). 

(4) God yet further warns them against walk- 
ing "contrary" to Him, and threatens to bring 
"seven times" more plagues upon them. 

(5) After enlarging upon their calamities, God 
warns them that He will send wild beasts among 
them, which shall rob them of their children, de- 
stroy their cattle and make them desolate. 

(6) Foreseeing their continued rebellion, their 
wilful walking contrary to His laws and leadings, 
He declares that He will send a sword upon them, 
will send pestilence and famine upon their land, 
and deliver them over in servitude to their ene- 
mies, who will oppress them. He next adds, "I 
will chastise you seven times for your sins." (vs. 
24-33). This is the Word of the Most High. It 
has been fearfully fulfilled, even to the letter. 
Study the history of the Jewish people, if you 
would see the execution of these threatened judg- 
ments. 

We find several times in this passage the decla- 
ration that God will punish them "seven times." 
(See vs. 18, 21, 24, 28.) We feel sure that there 
is a significance in this expression that will go un- 
noticed by the careless reader. Does God mean to 
say simply that He will send seven different pun- 
ishments upon them, after which His judgments 
will cease? If so, who can point out these seven 



Who is the Beast? 23 

series of Divine judgments upon the chosen peo- 
ple ? Have they not, in the long centuries of their 
dispersion, suffered more than seven visitations 
of wrath? They have suffered for centuries. 
God has poured out upon them the fires of wrath 
and through human agents has visited upon them 
numberless castigations. Their calamities have 
multiplied greatly, their sorrows have increased, 
and trials have come upon them without number. 
They have been disfranchised, hated, robbed, 
beaten, persecuted, oppressed, tortured, "seven 
times," yea, seventy times seven, more yet — thou- 
sands upon thousands of times. They have been 
made captive, have been forced into servitude, 
driven into exile, and forced to wander homeless 
over the earth. Their masters and oppressors 
have been in Assyria, Babylonia, Medo-Persia, 
Rome, Russia, Spain, Germany and other nations. 
They have been harried, tortured, cut to pieces, 
and burned at the stake. Their oppressors have 
increased; their sorrows have multiplied. Then 
what is the meaning of this oft-repeated term 
"seven times"? 

We find the word "times" in an expression 
used by the angel who interpreted the "little 
horn" to Daniel (Dan. 7:25). In this case it is 
perfectly clear that the term is not a numerical 
proposition; it refers not to a repetition of inci- 
dents. The angel speaks of this God-opposing 
horn or king as having power over laws and con- 



24 Who is the Beast? 

ditions "until a time (one), and times (two) and 
the dividing (half) of time." The period covered 
by this expression evidently means three and one- 
half "times." This word, then, must have as its 
meaning a time measurement, rather than a nu- 
merical recurrence. The angel is not informing 
Daniel and us of certain things being repeated 
seven different times, or three and a half times. 
He is giving us a time measurement. For the 
present, let us suppose that a "time" is a period 
of a year of years. In the calendar year there are 
twelve months of thirty days each, that is, three 
hundred and sixty days. At this rate a "time" 
is three hundred and sixty days; "times" twice 
three hundred and sixty days, that is, seven hun- 
dred and twenty days; and "a dividing of time" 
is one hundred and eighty days. These numbers 
added together: 360 plus 720, plus 180, equal 1260. 
This is the sum of three and one-half "times," or, 
on the supposition that each day represents a year, 
a total of 1260 years. 

Now, if the term "times" as used in Daniel 
(7:25) has this significance, may it not give us 
the clue to the "seven times" of Leviticus? This 
period, the reader can readily see, has just doubled 
the length of the time assigned to the "little 
horn." 

"But," says an objector, "you are assuming 
that a 'time' is a year, even a year of years. Can 
\ r ou prove that to be its meaning?" Perhaps we 



Who is the Beast? 25 

cannot; but will the friendly reader hold his de- 
cision in abeyance for a while that we may try. 

For the time being, let us suppose this method 
to be correct; and if we must reject it, do so af- 
ter all our arguments have been presented. If 
this is the correct method of interpretation, it wall 
have wonderful significance in the progress of our 
discussion. You ask why we adopt this method? 
Please do not force a premature answer. Let us 
suggest a few reasons as probable, and then test 
them out by facts. 

We suppose this to be a correct method as ap- 
plied to these passages because — 

1. Many sane and scholarly teachers and in- 
terpreters have accepted it. Of course, this alone 
is not conclusive proof ; nor do we offer it as such ; 
but as a presumptive proof, as suggestive, and 
as most probably correct, we name it. 

2. In some scriptures a "day" is specifically 
used to represent a year (See Numbers 14:34). 
Moses received a message from God concerning 
the very subject we have under consideration, 
namely: the rebellions and consequent afflictions 
of the Israelites. Hear the language spoken 
through Moses and Aaron : "Your children shall 
w r ander in the wilderness forty years — until your 
carcasses be wasted in the wilderness." Now no- 
tice that he measures the time on the year-for-a- 
day basis. "After the number of the days in 
which ye searched the land, even forty days, each 



26 Who is the Beast? 

day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even 
forty years." This is exactly in line with the 
threatened judgments of God as set forth in Le- 
viticus. He punishes them for their sins, and 
measures their deserts on the basis of a year-for- 
a-day. Furthermore, this is not a measurement 
of the divine blessing, but of the Almighty's curse. 
The term seems to be used chiefly, if not always, 
as a measurement of the outpoured wrath of Je- 
hovah. 

"Seven times" then will, by this rule, repre- 
sent a period of chastisement. It will show Israel 
fleeing before his enemies, wandering through 
the earth under oppression, living in loneliness 
and isolation because of God's rejection and 
wrath. The time of this isolation for Israel 
will aggregate seven times three hundred 
and sixty years, that is, for a total of 
twenty-five hundred and twenty years. And 
this is exactly double the length of time in which 
the persecuting "little horn" shall resist the work 
and will of God and scandalize the nations. Re- 
member this statement; it will be useful here- 
after. 

This period will, therefore, represent the time 
when the sons of Jacob are homeless wanderers 
throughout the earth ; covering a period in which 
they have no government. It was long since writ- 
ten by one of their prophets "The children of Is- 
rael shall abide many days (a day for a year, 



Who is the Beast? 27 

many years) without a king, without a prince" — 
and without the paraphernalia of the priesthood 
— namely, "without a (high-priestly) sacrifice 
and without an image and without an ephod and 
without teraphim." (Hos. 3:4, 5.) Has not this 
been literally accomplished? Are not the Jews 
without a high-priest and without a sacrifice ? The 
writer of this chapter some time since asked an 
educated Jew, "How is it that you Israelites do not 
observe your sacrifices?" He replied, "Because 
we have lost our high-priest." Not only have they 
lost their priestly leadership, but they have no 
king and no prince. They live under the govern- 
ment of the Gentiles, having none of their own. 
They are sojourners among all the nations. They 
maintain a racial existence, but having no nation- 
al organization, cannot maintain a governmental 
identity. 

And how long has this been their condition? 
Any historian will tell you that it has continued 
since the days of the great Babylonian monarch 
■and world-ruler, Nebuchadnezzar. He carried 
their king, Jehoiakim, into captivity (Dan. 1:1, 
2) , And how long since that occurred? We have 
no inspired chronology. That of Archbishop 
Usher places the overthrow of the Judaic king- 
dom at 607 B. C. Add this to the present date, 
607 plus 1918 equals 2,525, which would place us 
five years over the allotted period of Israel's wan- 
derings, which were to continue, as we have seen, 



28 Who is the Beast? 

for "seven times." This prophetic measure (sev- 
en times) taking the calendar measurement of 
360 days multiplied by seven, gives us a total of 
2,520 years. But there are three methods of com- 
puting time, viz.: the lunar year of 354 days, 
which would be seven times 354 equals, 2,478. 
Subtract the date of Jehoiakim's captivity, viz.: 
607 B. C. from 2,478, would make the time of 
2,520 years to have expired in 1871 A. D. But 
the calendar year of twelve months of 30 days 
each, 30 times 12 equals 360 days per year, multi- 
plied by seven, equals 2,520 years. Subtract 607 
B. C. from 2,520 would yield 1913 A. D. 

But there is the solar year, 365 days and a 
fraction. Seven of these year^ or "times" by the 
same method of computation would yield 2,555. 
Subtract the 607 B. C. and it would land us at 
1948 A. D. 

Owing to these different methods of comput- 
ing time, it is perfectly evident that no one can 
set an exact date for the accomplishment of these 
predictions. God does not give away His secrets ; 
they belong to Himself only. But a prophecy of 
this character makes a very plain fingerboard. It 
points unerringly to the proximity of the restora- 
tion of Israel, even in our own day. Let him who 
will, read "the signs of the times." For centuries 
Jerusalem has been trodden under foot of the 
brutal Turkish government. But Turkey is the 
sick man of the Orient. His dominion is passing 



Who is the Beast? 29 

away even now; British soldiers are triumphant 
in the land of ancient Israel. The power of the 
Turk is waning. He is tottering to his fall. But 
let us remember that England is the best friend 
of the Jew, and England is the present conqueror 
of the land that belongs to the sons of Jacob. The 
British are preparing to allow the Jews to reor- 
ganize their own government and take possession 
of their chosen land. Jews have secured a plot 
of ground in Jerusalem and they have already 
raised a fund of one million dollars with which to 
start a university. At the time of this writing 
comes the Associated Press announcement of the 
laying of the cornerstone. There will be taught 
the language of the ancient Hebrews, together 
with their customs. 

These facts mean much. The Jews are both 
the richest and the poorest people of earth. In 
lands like Russia, where they have been oppressed 
and robbed, many of them are exceedingly poor. 
On the other hand, in countries like the United 
States many of them are millionaires and even 
multi-millionaires. Zionism is gathering its forc- 
es, the wealthy will finance it and the poor will 
leap at the opportunity of going back to the land 
of Jacob. Within a few years we shall see a very 
flourishing state, a rejuvenated nation in the Holy 
Land.* 



*The writer would be delighted to show somewhat of 
the future of Israel after the restoration. Suffice it to say 



30 Who is the Beast? 

The prophet Hosea after having announced 
the dispersion of Israel, points to their restora- 
tion in the following words: "Afterwards shall 
the children of Israel return and seek the Lord 
their God, and David their king." This king 
whom they seek and to whom they return is none 
other than Jesus, Son of God, Son of man, but in 
the flesh a descendant of Israel's great king. (See 
Luke 1:31-33.) 

We are not of those who attempt to figure so 
deeply into the prophetic revealments of our Lord 
as to foretell all the events of the future. It is 
perhaps as true now as when spoken, "Of that 
day and hour knoweth no man." But while we 
may not penetrate the hidden recesses of the years 
to come, yet we may easily read the sign-boards 
which our Lord has hung up in the pages of His 
revealed word, and through the historic centuries. 
We may reverently seek to learn that which He 
has revealed in His Word. We may study the 
schedule of the ages, and may read with open 
heart and mind the current history of our times. 



here that after the rehabilitation of the Jewish govern- 
ment the northern hordes (out of Germany and Russia) 
will launch another world-war that will be fought out on 
the mountains of Israel. It will be the Armageddon battle 
of the ages, the greatest conflict in the history of the hu- 
man family. We incorporate a brief presentation of this 
subject in a later part of the book. It cannot be more 
lengthily discussed at this place. See "The Great War 
and Our Lord's Return." Price 50 cents. Also "Germany 
and the Armageddon." Same publishers as this book. 



Who is the Beast? 31 

All these point to an early restoration of Israel. 
Jerusalem shall be rebuilt and renewed. The land 
of Israel shall again flourish, and even blossom 
as the rose. But ere its accomplishment war and 
bloodshed shall shock the world. The ages are 
nearing their consummation. The power of the 
oppressor shall be utterly broken and ere long 
our King Jesus shall reign without a rival in 
Jerusalem and over all the earth. 

But we will now examine another scripture 
wherein the day-for-a-year method of interpreta- 
tion is plainly taught, especially in Jewish pun- 
ishment, and in the triumph of wickedness. God 
said to Ezekiel (4:6), "When thou hast accom- 
plished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou 
shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty 
days: I have appointed thee each day for a 
year." Not only is it thus specifically stated "a 
day for a year," but here as in all these scriptures 
the subject of these "time" measurements is the 
punishment of transgression, or the foisting upon 
men the violent curse as illustrated in the bloody 
career of the vicious "little horn." We do not 
know any place in the scripture where the day 
for the year symbol is in use, except in connection 
with something that is evil. In Revelation (13) 
the period of these "times" and the "dividing of 
time" is given as "forty-two months." By the 
calendar year this is exactly 1,260 days or 3% 
years. It is used of Israel in rebellion, of the 



32 Who is the Beast? 

"little horn," and of the Beast. Israel's disper- 
sion, being for seven years of years is now about 
fulfilled. The performances of the "little horn" 
cover the latter half of Israel's 2,520 years ; that 
is, his work is during the last 1,260 years of this 
period. 

When we read, therefore, of the "times of the 
Gentiles," let us bear in mind that it is a period 
that fills in between the two theocracies. The 
first theocratic dominion ended in the overthrow 
of the Jewish kingdom by Nebuchadnezzar. 
Henceforth, the dominion of the world passes to 
the Gentiles. This dominion continues for 2,520 
years ("seven times"). It will end in the fulness 
of time, when this period reaches its completion. 
Thenceforth, the old Gentile dominion, beastly and 
unclean, vicious and bloody, passes away. The 
returning Christ crushes all opposition, over- 
throws the governments of men, crowns the 
saints as sub-rulers and inaugurates His own 
millennial, and thenceforth eternal, kingdom. 
The theocratic government of Christ, therefore, is 
to supersede, annihilate and eliminate the beastly 
rule of earth. Thus shall terminate the Gentile 
dominion of the world, when the everlasting king- 
dom of God shall be established. 

We trust our reader fully comprehends the 
meaning of the "metes and bounds" of "the times 
of the Gentiles." If so, we are ready to go for- 
ward with our subject. 



Who is the Beast? 33 

End of Jewish Monarchy. 

According to the Concise Bible Dictionary* 
the proper date for the end of the Jewish Mon- 
archy is given as 586 or 587 B. C. Accepting 586 
as correct and adding present date 586 plus 1918 
equals 2,504. Subtract this from 2,520 and there 
remain yet 16 years before the end of "the times 
of the Gentiles/' 

It is manifest that we cannot be dogmatic as 
to dates, because of the uncertainty of our chro- 
nology. 

All we are interested in is, that we may get 
the fundamental facts, that we may find the key 
to the prophecy, that we may know the period of 
time in which we live. We still recognize as true 
the saying of our Lord, "Of that day and hour 
(exact date or time) knoweth no man." But of 
the fact that the day is at hand, the morning Com- 
eth, we may rest assured. The end of the Gen- 
tiles times is on us and the King of Glory will 
soon appear. 



*Thomas Nelson & Sons. 



CHAPTER III. 

The Great Image. 
(Daniel 2.) 

The Gentiles were primarily idolaters, image- 
worshippers. What better picture or representa- 
tion of the "times of the Gentiles" could have been 
given than that of a huge image. This is ex- 
actly what happened. As we have seen, Nebu- 
chadnezzar was the first ruler in the period under 
consideration. True to his idolatrous instincts 
he, the head of "the Gentile times," erected a 
great image in the plains of Dura and required all 
men to fall down before it in worship. This 
king was a great monarch; was the first of the 
world-rulers ; was the chosen head of Gentile do- 
minion for the world. How best could he launch 
this period for the rejection of God among men 
than by setting up the image we have under con- 
sideration? The reader will notice that this im- 
age was composed of four metals. Beginning at 
the top, we have the head of gold; descending 
earthward through a cheapening scale of metals, 
we find silver, brass and iron. Reaching the 
ground at the feet, we find a mixture of iron and 
clay. What better could portray the descending, de- 
grading dominion of the Gentiles in earth ? Start- 

34 



Who is the Beast? 35 

ing with gold and finally reaching the cheap, weak, 
and practically worthless condition represented by 
two materials of which amalgamation was impos- 
sible. Iron is cheap, clay yet cheaper ; and an at- 
tempted amalgamation can yield only defeat and 
confusion. 

These four metals represent four world em- 
pires, the Babylonian, under Nebuchadnezzar; the 
Medo-Persian, under Darius; the Greco-Macedo- 
nian, under Alexander the Great, and the Roman 
under the Caesars. 

It will be observed that while here are four 
metals entering into the composition of the image, 
there is a unity of spirit, of purpose, of religion, 
and of life in the upper half of the image. This 
unity is represented in the upper body, which is 
one. Wherein is this unity? It can be found in 
but one thing, viz.: in religion. Though there 
were four dynasties, the Babylonian, the Per- 
sian, the Grecian and the Roman ; yet they were 
all pagans. There was among them no other re- 
ligion. The four dynasties are set forth in the 
four metals, whereas the unity of their religion is 
symbolized in the oneness of the body. 

The great lesson of the Gentile dominion in 
the earth, is that of rulership over a w r orld with- 
out a recognition of the true God. The image 
does not belong to God as represented in the 
Jews; nor to Jesus Christ as set forth in the 
church, but to idol-w r orshipping Gentiles. The 



36 Who is the Beast? 

image is theirs, the "times" are theirs, the world 
is theirs. In such an age, under such a world 
rulership, such an image is a fitting symbol — for 
they are image-making, image-worshipping pa- 
gans. The period belongs not to the Jew ; nor 
yet to the Christian, but to the Gentile. In order 
to be a Christian, one has to renounce the world, 
"Come out from among them and be ye separate," 
saith the Lord. (II Cor. 6:14-18). One cannot 
be of the world and yet be true to God. "Who- 
soever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is 
an enemy of God." (Jas. 4:4.) A Christian must 
renounce a worldly life, take up his cross and fol- 
low Jesus (Matt. 16:24). The age in which we 
live is evil (Gal. 1:4). 

While the upper body was a unit, the lower 
half of the image divides, even as the human body 
parts into the limbs. This has a double signifi- 
cance. It portrays two things: (a) the Roman 
empire had two capitals, the eastern at Constan- 
tinople, the western at Rome. And these corre- 
spond to the two legs of the image, (b) But 
in the second half of the period represented by the 
image there are two religions as well as two 
capitals. These religions are the Mohammedan, 
concentering about the eastern Roman capital, 
at the present time the head of the Turkish em- 
pire ; the other one is the papal monarchy, finding 
its origin, and having its seat of power, in the 
Vatican at Rome. With these facts before us, we 



Who is the Beast? 37 

find the Gentile times divided into two parts of 
about equal duration. The first half is strictly 
pagan; the second half is composed of two false 
religions, having their base in what is now Tur- 
key and in the ancient city of Seven Hills. Since 
the present era begins after the fall of the Jew- 
ish theocracy, and terminates just before the es- 
tablishment of the final theocracy of Christ's do- 
minion — the conclusion is inevitable that the age 
is subservient to an anti-Christian condition. 
There can be no dominating, regal, Christianity 
in this age, for it is given over to the Gentiles, like 
the unmeasured court of Rev. 11. The church 
of God is composed of the rejected, separated, 
and trampled few. The devil is the prince of the 
world (John 12:31). Yea, he is even the "god" 
of this age. (II Cor. 4:4.) This age is neither 
ruled by Christ nor His church. He Himself says 
to His followers: "Fear not, little flock, for it 
is the Father's good pleasure to give you the 

kingdom." (Luke 12:32.) Up till the time they 

* 

take the kingdom, the crowned ones are few. 
When men dream in their folly of converting the 
world through the agency of the church — before 
the return of our King — they display a paucity of 
knowledge in things revealed. 

But both Islam and the papacy assert the 
right of rulership in the earth. They belong to 
the pagan regime that would control the world 
in the name of an ecclesiastical overlordship. 



38 Who is the Beast? 

This is the time of Gentile dominion, not the time 
of God's kingdom. At the return of Jesus in the 
clouds of heaven, with power and great glory, He 
shall smash, pulverize, destroy and sweep from 
the earth every vestige of Gentile authority as 
represented in the image. In confirmation of this, 
let us hear Daniel's exposition of the dream in 
which the monarch saw the course of time por- 
trayed. Daniel says: 'Thou sawest till that a 
stone was cut out without hands, which smote the 
image upon its feet which were of iron and clay, 
and brake them in pieces. Then was the iron, 
the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold brake 
in pieces together and became like the chaff of 
the summer threshing floors; and the wind car- 
ried them away, that no place was found for 
them ; and the stone that smote the image became 
a great mountain, and filled the whole earth/' 
(Dan. 2:34, 35.) 

Some have thought and contended that this 
kingdom which fills the whole earth and is repre- 
sented by the stone cut from the mountain, began 
with the Babe of Bethlehem — the coming of Je- 
sus as a Savior, and gradually spread till it filled 
the world. That such conclusion is a mistake may 
be clearly seen by the following facts: 

1. At his first coming our Lord acted in the 
capacity of a Redeemer; at His second coming He 
will be a King, and will have dominion over all the 
earth. 



Who is the Beast? 39 

2. At His first coming He launched His gospel in 
the world. Its effect is refining, strengthening, 
elevating; at His second coming His work will 
not be persuasive and pervasive, but it will be 
dominating and regal. His is the stone kingdom, 
He Himself being the chief cornerstone. When 
the stone begins its work it will crush, pulverize 
and destroy all antagonistic influences with which 
it may come in contact. Kings enter the domin- 
ions of other kings to crush opposition, to over- 
throw the armies of the enemy. Accordingly, our 
King coming to the kingdom of "the god of this 
world" will make war; He will force the issue, 
will make inroads upon the enemy, will overthrow 
and defeat all his forces. See the picture of the 
coming Conqueror as set forth in the apocalyptic 
vision of St. John (Rev. 19). Yet again, from 
Daniel we read : "In the days of these kings shall 
the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall 
never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be 
left to other people, but it shall break in pieces 
and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand 
forever." (Dan. 2:44.) 

We have observed the four metals that enter 
into the composition of the image. They are all 
specified and will be crushed and destroyed at the 
setting up of the stone kingdom. 

3. When Jesus came at first the iron king- 
dom, that of Rome, was treading down all the au- 
thority and dominion of men. Nothing could stand 



40 Who is the Beast? 

before her. Roman power prevailed against all 
opposition; but in the end the iron is crushed as 
well as the gold, the silver and the brass. 

4. The image was not smitten upon its head 
nor upon its breast, nor yet upon its sides nor its 
thighs. It was smitten upon its feet showing that 
the Gentile "times" must be fulfilled before the 
image is destroyed. 

5. Jesus at one time said, "The kingdom of 
God cometh not with observation." From this 
some have contended that the kingdom must be a 
gradual development. Their reasoning is faulty. 
The verb used by our Master, was "cometh," 
which is in the present tense. At no time did He 
say, The Kingdom of God shall never come with 
observation, that is, visibly. On the contrary, He 
affirmed many times that He, the King, shall be 
"seen" coming in the clouds of heaven with pow- 
er and great glory. (Luke 21:27.) 

6. The disciples asked Jesus if He would at 
that time restore the kingdom to Israel. He gave 
them no dates, but bade them await God's own 
time. (Acts 1:6, 7.) From this passage, some 
have set up the contention that the disciples were 
carnal and materialistic in their conceptions of 
the kingdom. Such have insisted that He rebuked 
their expectations. Far from it. He simply in- 
formed them that the Father had reserved to 
Himself the right to set the time for the inaugu- 
ration of the kingdom. Telling them of His vis- 



Who is the Beast? 41 

ible return in the clouds and the attending scenes, 
He said: "When ye see these things begin to 
come to pass, know ye that the Kingdom of God is 
nigh at hand." (Luke 21 :28, 31) . 

7. Throughout the present era of twenty-five 
centuries, as we have shown, the kingdom is left 
to the Gentiles. It is their era, age or dispensa- 
tion. These "times" are theirs. But at the end 
of this age — at the return of our Lord — it is said, 
"The time came that the saints possessed the king- 
dom." (Dan. 7:22). The time of the dominion 
of the saints cannot come until the crushing over- 
throw of the image, which stands for Gentile rul- 
ership. 

8. Two kingdoms mutually antagonistic can- 
not co-exist in the same territory, even as two 
solids cannot occupy the same space. When the 
stone kingdom is established, all that remains of 
the kingdom represented by the gold, silver, brass 
and iron shall pass away and be supplanted by the 
new kingdom. The times of the Gentiles and the 
times of the saints must be different. They can- 
not co-exist; the one supplants the other. Each 
of the kingdoms represented by the four metals 
was of itself a world-empire. These came not 
coetaneously ; they were rather successive. The 
one followed the other. Indeed, no two existed at 
the same time. However, there was more har- 
mony between them, than could exist between any 
one of them and the coming stone kingdom. It is 



42 Who is the Beast? 

evident that the stone kingdom — that of our Lord 
— is more widely divergent from each and all of 
these metal kingdoms than they were from each 
other. The metals might be amalgamated, but 
the iron and clay would not combine; the union 
of the stone kingdom with the gold, the silver, the 
brass and the iron kingdoms will be far less prob- 
able than the amalgamation of any one of them 
that preceded it. It thoroughly pulverizes all of 
them ; the result is, they are blown away "like the 
chaff of the summer threshing floor." When they 
have completely passed away, then the stone king- 
dom extends beyond all boundaries. "It becomes 
a great mountain and fills all the earth." 

9. Each of the five dynasties has a metal of 
its own, one that truly represents it. But of the 
five world kingdoms each one has to pass away 
before the other becomes operative. Four of these 
belong to the Gentile period, whereas the fifth and 
last is wholly extraneous. It begins after the oth- 
ers have passed away, and it endures forever. 

The "seven times" of Israel's wandering is 
aptly illustrated in the life of Nebuchadnezzar. 
With all this monarch's greatness and majesty — 
ruling a kingdom that covered the known world 
— God smote him. Lunacy overcame him, and for 
seven years, typical of the "seven times" of Is- 
rael's dispersion, he w T as driven forth from the 
walks of men, lived in the open and ate grass like 
the ox. The period of his imbecility exampli- 



Who is the Beast? 43 

fies the blindness of Israel. As he was driven 
from his throne and his palace, so are they driven 
from the Holy Land, and from their throne and 
crown. As the great monarch wandered in help- 
less lunacy, so has Israel wandered in dense dark- 
ness from the paths of God. But Nebuchadnezzar 
was restored. The crown was again placed upon 
his brow, and the scepter in his hand. So shall 
Israel be restored to God and the kingdom, enter 
once again upon its inheritance. And then Da- 
vid's greater Son shall "reign over the house of 
Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be 
no end." 

When the mind of Nebuchadnezzar was re- 
stored he acknowledged the sovereignty of the God 
of Daniel. So, when Israel's wanderings shall 
come to an end they will return to the God of their 
fathers and will acknowledge King Jesus as their 
Lord and Messiah. (See Jer. 23:5-8.) We are 
not surprised, after the restoration of the Baby- 
lonian king to hear him say of God: "All his 
works are truth, and his ways judgment; and 
those who walk in pride he is able to abase." (Dan. 
4:37.) 

We trust oui readers will bear in mind that 
this image, which is also typical of the period of 
paganism, of image-worship, portrays the whole 
course of empire during the period of Israelis re- 
jection, and the label with which God identifies 
this period is 



44 Who is the Beast? 

"The Times of the Gentiles." 
The proposition is a lesson. It presents a con- 
tinuous picture of the entire time that intervenes 
between the two theocratic kingdoms. Beginning 
with Nebuchadnezzar as the head of gold, the im- 
age continues through an unbroken succession of 
degenerating metals until its final crash and com- 
plete overthrow; when smitten upon its feet by 
the divinely-cast stone — even as the armless hand 
wrote upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace the 
sentence that sealed his doom — just so, the stone 
from the mountain, pulverizing the constituent el- 
ements of the image, seals the doom and termi- 
nates the career of all earthly Gentile rulers. No 
longer shall the world be ruled by the gold, the 
silver, the brass or the iron, but by the stone, even 
"the Chief Corner-Stone," our Lord Jesus Christ. 
His Kingdom is one of justice, of purity, of ever- 
lasting glory. It shall never pass away. All 
earthly kingdoms shall end. All mundane glory 
shall fade, but the kingdom of the Christ shall 
abide forever. 

Had there been no defection on the part of Is- 
rael, had they proven true to God and obedient to 
His authority, there would have been no "seven 
times" of their dispersion, and no corresponding 
"times of the Gentiles." In these "times" Israel 
dwells crownless and the church has not yet come 
into her rulership ; the day of her crowning glory 
is in abeyance. "When Christ, who is our life, 



Who is the Beast? 45 

shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him 
in glory." (Col. 3:4). "When the Chief Shep- 
herd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of 
glory that fadeth not away." (I Peter 5:4.) 
No kingdom and crown for the saints till then. 
We are now in the day of Israel's dethronement 
and the Church's humiliation. It is the day of 
Gentile dominion. These conditions co-exist. 
Hear the word of the Most High through Ezekiel : 
"Thou, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose 
day is come, * * * thus saith the Lord God: Re- 
move the diadem and take off the crown, * * * 
exalt him that is low and abase him that is high. 
I will overturn, overturn, overturn it : and it shall 
be no more (what shall be no more? The crown 
and kingdom of Israel) until he come whose right 
it is; and I will give it him." ( Ezek. 21:25-27.) 
The coming King is Jesus. Till His return Israel 
is crownless — the Gentiles rule. 

God will give restored and converted Israel a 
great place in His glorious coming stone kingdom. 
But this is another subject, to which we cannot 
here and now give space. Let the reader examine 
the following scriptures, and many others (Jer. 
23 :3-9 ; Ezek. 37 :21-27 ; Hosea 3 :5 ; Zeph. 3 :9-20 ; 
Zech. 2:4, 5, 10-12; 8:3-5, 22, 23; Acts 15:16, 17; 
Rom. 11:12-15). 



CHAPTER IV. 
The Reign of the Beast. 

Having depicted the course of empire under 
the figure of a great image, Jehovah next portrays 
the same period as a beastly regime. We suppose 
that practically all sane interpreters agree that 
the two visions, that one revealed to the great 
monarch and the one given to Daniel, cover the 
same period of time. They are but different illus- 
trations intended to set forth the history of the 
world under Gentile dominance. They cover the 
same centuries, set forth the same history, pre- 
sent to us the power and progress of the Gentile 
dominion as seen from two different view-points. 
These visions set before us a history which begins 
in the days of Israel's rejection and terminates at 
the time of the return of Jesus Christ to inaugu- 
rate His theocratic rule upon earth. The visions 
run parallel ; they rise at the same time, co-exist 
and terminate the same date. The vision given to 
Nebuchadnezzar reveals kingly authority from an 
exterior point of vision. It shows kingship in 
such a light as will be pleasing to kings. It dis- 
plays the majesty, the glory, the paraphernalia of 
royalty. But Daniel's vision was revealed from 
the divine view-point. It gives the inner work- 

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Who is the Beast? 47 

ings of Gentile dominion, displays the beastliness 
of regal authority, as God Himself sees it. This 
portrays a time of conflict, of war, brutality, even 
as the conflict of wild, blood-thirsty beasts. Un- 
der the two visions we have the inner and outer 
picture of royalty. Here is the clash of authority 
and the beastliness of war, the selfishness of rul- 
ers. 

Let us notice briefly the four beasts, as seen 
in the vision given to Daniel. A willing heart and 
attentive mind will learn lessons of value. It will 
be observed that the animals brought before our 
vision are not domestic, man-loving animals. In- 
stead, they are wild, terrific denisons of the jun- 
gles. Look at them. 

1. Here we have a lion. He is king among 
beasts. He rules the forests. He is overbearing, 
ferocious, dreadful. His mighty roar sends other 
animals shivering to their dens. But this lion is 
a strange creature. He is unlike others of his 
tribe. He has wings like unto an eagle. What do 
they represent? This lion is intended to set be- 
fore us the great Chaldean king, the mighty Baby- 
lonian monarch, Nebuchadnezzar. A great ruler 
he was, and an invincible conqueror. The wings 
were given as illustrative of his sweeping victor- 
ies. With them he could rise above difficulties, 
sweep over obstructions, and fly forward as the 
eagle to obtain his objects. In the great Image 
this monarch was represented by the head of gold. 



48 Who is the Beast? 

Here he is portrayed as the courageous lion; to 
which is superadded the wings, indicative of speed 
and the sweep of his victories. 

But his wings were plucked. This reminds us 
of the time when the great ruler lost his mind, 
in helpless lunacy he was driven from men and 
wandered among the beasts of the field ; but later, 
we find him placed upon his feet as a man, his 
mind and his kingdom restored ; and he made glad 
surrender of his heart to the God of Daniel. "A 
man's heart was given to him." He acknowledged 
Jehovah as "Lord of lords, as King of kings." 

2. The next beast is a bear. It represents 
the Medo-Persian empire. The bear is brutal, 
sluggish, cruel. This one had three ribs in its 
mouth, indicative of its triumph over Libya, 
Egypt and Babylon. The people of that empire 
were heartlessly cruel. But they had no such bril- 
liance, wealth and majesty; no such sweep of pow- 
er, as the Chaldeans, under the mighty Nebuchad- 
nezzar. 

3. A leopard next comes before us. It is a 
strange, unnatural looking figure. It has four 
wings and four heads. Who is set forth under 
this queer symbol? Whose kingdom does it pre- 
figure? The leopard represents Alexander the 
Great, in its body: its four wings setting forth 
the marvellous sweep of his victories, the unsur- 
passed speed of his conquering armies. Nothing 
could stand before them. Everything was driven 



Who is the Beast? 49 

pell-mell as his armies swept on from nation to 
nation. But this great, strange beast had four 
heads. What was their significance? When 
Alexander died at the early age of 32 or 33, hav- 
ing no son to take his throne, the vast empire was 
divided between his four generals, viz., Lysimach- 
us, Seleucus, Cassander and Ptolemy. Thus the 
generals who succeeded the mighty conqueror 
were a part of the leopard, as definitely and cer- 
tainly as Alexander himself. 

At this juncture we would call the reader's 
attention to the fact that each of these beasts rep- 
resented an entire dynasty, not simply one king. 
We will not enlarge upon this thought here, but 
will develop it elsewhere. But we beg the reader 
to bear it in mind in all his reading. 

4. Last we find a marvelous creature. The 
fourth beast is said to be different from all others. 
The prophet cannot name an animal that will cor- 
rectly represent the fourth beast. He is a peculiar 
compound. He possesses teeth of iron, nails of 
brass, and is so mighty, so terrible that nothing 
can stand before him. He crushes, devours and 
destroys whatever rises up against him. The 
earth succumbs before his cruel march. Like the 
others, he represents a world-dominating king- 
dom. This is not an individual ruler, but a migh- 
ty dynasty. What dominion can be represented by 
this great composite beast? Manifestly the Ro- 
man. 



50 Who is the Beast? 

That our interpretation of the beasts, in apply- 
ing the vision to world-empires, is correct, we find 
is confirmed by the angel. He gave this interpre- 
tation to Daniel, saying that the four beasts are 
four kings, that is, rather kingdoms. There have 
been since the time of Daniel but four great 
world-empires. Bear them in mind. They were 
the Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the Macedon- 
ian, and the Roman. When we speak of the first, 
second, third and fourth beasts, or empires, the 
reader may readily recognize each of them by its 
number. 

Now, in the head of the fourth beast there 
came up ten "horns," which are explained by the 
interpreter as symbols of ten kings that shall 
arise, (vs. 23, 24.) After the rise of these 
"'horns," we do not meet the beast again until we 
reach the vision of John. Nor do these ten kings 
make much impression on the mind of the proph- 
et. But there comes up after the rise of the ten 
horns "a little horn." He attracts the prophet's 
attention. He is said to be "among the ten," and 
yet we read that he is "after" them. This simply 
means that the ten arose first; then he arises, 
forces himself into their company, and outlives 
them all. So he is said to be "after" them. 

Henceforth, this "little horn" occupies the cen- 
ter of the stage. He eclipses al] the others. It is 
said that "his look was more stout than that of 
his fellows" (v. 8). Furthermore, we are inform- 



Who is the Beast? 51 

ed that he ' 'plucks up three of the others by the 
roots." He overthrows these three, takes their 
kingdoms and crowns, appropriating them to him- 
self. His success is henceforth represented in his 
crown, which is triple in form. We are told that 
he had "eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth 
that spake great things. " Again, we are inform- 
ed of this "horn" that he "spake great swelling 
words against the Most High." 

After the appearing of the "little horn," we 
see nothing more of the remaining horns. They 
sink out of sight, while he looms large on the ho- 
rizon. Why? We shall see. 

In the genealogies of the Bible, one name is 
taken from a family, in order that history may be 
traced through him. The other members of the 
household are allowed to pass unnamed. We read, 
"Adam lived an hundred and thirty years and be- 
gat a son in his own likeness, in his own image ; 
and he called his name Seth. And the days of 
Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hun- 
dred years; and he begat sons and daughters." 
We further read of the children of Seth. It is said 
of him that he begat Enos, after which he "lived 
eight hundred and seven years and begat sons and 
daughters." Why should so many of these chil- 
dren be nameless? Because their names were not 
necessary to the genealogy that was being traced. 
Just so with the "horns." Of all ten of them only 
one is kept before us in the record. He over- 



52 Who is the Beast? 

threw three, leaving seven, and these seven, like 
the unnamed sons and daughters of Adam and 
Seth, are allowed to pass unnamed. Their names 
are not necessary to the history that is being set 
before us. It is necessary that the beastly geneal- 
ogy be traced. In order to do this, the lion, the 
bear, the leopard, and the great nondescript are 
given. These, however, cover less than one-half 
of "the times of the Gentiles." To fill in the un- 
expired term of the beasts the "little horn" must 
not be lost to sight. Be is silhouetted* against 
the history of the ages that intervened ere the ap- 
pealing of the King of Glory. The rest of the 
centuries are his. He is heir to the uncompleted 
beastly regime. The outline must be finished and 
we find his history is the history of the beast. No 
other beast shall arise, nor can any subsequent 
heir be found to the beastly heritage. It is per- 
petuated only in him. Trace him to the end of 
his career and the beast lies uncovered before 
our vision. His dominion is the empire of the 
beast. 



CHAPTER V. 
Who Is the "Little Horn?" 

The term "horn" is herein used to represent a 
ruler. "The ten horns are ten kings." (Dan. 7: 
23). Why is he called "a little horn? Because 
his kingdom was a small kingdom. The four 
beasts preceding him represent the four world-em- 
pires. But as a king he has no such extent of 
dominion. His empire is but a small domain, and 
yet the whole beastly regime is perpetuated in 
him. He is an officious, swell-headed, big- 
mouthed, blasphemous ruler. Thus, while his 
kingdom is small, his pretensions are great, his 
claims to authority and power are immeasurable. 
The terrible, crushing, iron-toothed, brass-nailed 
character of the nondescript lives and is perpetu- 
ated in the "little horn." He possesses all the 
boastful, repressive, and oppressive elements of 
the fourth beast, the great composite nondescript. 
The "little horn" preserves and carries forward in 
himself the dominating spirit, the lordly, conquer- 
ing kingliness of the lion, the bear and the leo- 
pard. What a marvelous creature! He is wor- 
thy of a careful survey. Trace him through the 
centuries. Keep your eye on the "little horn." 

In studying this strange creature we observe 
the following points: 

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1. He did not arise until the disintegration 
of the old Roman empire. It fell apart, lost its 
unity, and survived only in the "ten horns ;" and 
now its spirit and dominion continue to be repre- 
sented by the character under consideration. The 
other "horns" sink out of sight as did the un- 
named sons and daughters of Adam and Seth. As 
the Adamic family lives genealogically in Seth; 
and as the family lineage is perpetuated in Enos; 
so the beastly lineage, its family-tree, can be 
traced only in the blasphemous "little horn." In 
him the beastly family survives. Trace their his- 
tory and connection through the dim outline of 
the Middle Ages ; when lo, their great descendant 
looms large in the eschatdlogical vision of St. 
John on the Patmos Isle. When St. John gets his 
vision of the Beast you have the great successor 
of all the prophetic beasts of the olden times. 

2. Since his kingdom was not large he is apt- 
ly described in his kingly capacity as a "little 
horn." His kingdom was not in its proportions 
comparable to that of the lion, or the bear, or the 
leopard, or his great progenitor, the nondescript. 
As they were, so is he, a king. He had a throne, 
a scepter and a crown; but his kingdom was 
small, only a portion, a very small portion, of the 
mighty empire of the fourth beast, still he is the 
son and the successor of the great nondescript. 
But withal, he was a real king. He had a kingdom 
that fell to his lot after the rise of the ten kings, 



Who is the Beast? 55 

or horns. The ten horns partitioned the mighty 
world-empire of the great fourth beast among 
themselves, and then three of them were plucked 
up by the roots, and were supplanted by the "lit- 
tle horn." 

3. He came into his kingdom, not by natural 
inheritance, but as a supplanter; he overthrew 
the three kings whose states were embraced in his 
little kingdom. He was a usurper, one whose 
crown was obtained by flattery and falsehood. 
The states embraced in his kingdom were repre- 
sented by a triple crown. 

Reader, do you know what king once wore, 
and yet asserts the right to wear, a triple crown ? 
If so, you know the "little horn." But we look 
for other earmarks of the usurper. 

4. He was possessed of "eyes like the eyes of 
a man, and a mouth speaking great things." 
(Dan. 7:8.) While his kingdom was small, his 
professions and pretensions, his boastings and 
proud looks, reached to the skies. Can you not 
now identify him ? If you cannot, you have sure- 
ly read history to small purpose. Who has been 
small as a king, yet full of lordly meddling in the 
affairs of men and nations ? Think a moment and 
give your own answer. But we will point out yet 
other marks of identification. 

5. He was a proud fellow, (v. 20.) Who has 
demanded recognition as "King of kings and Lord 
or lords?" Who has demanded that all earth's 



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rulers recognize him as their superior and over- 
lord? Who has told kings that they held their 
thrones by his grace, and that he could absolve all 
their subjects from lawful allegiance? Who has 
crowned and dethroned rulers ? Who was it that 
made Henry IV stand barefooted at his gate in 
winter for three days? Who has demanded that 
men shall kneel in his presence, forcing this hu- 
miliating requirement upon kings and emperors? 
Who has demanded that men kiss his toe and ask 
him for absolution from their sins? Locate him 
of the proud look and the "mouth speaking great 
things/' and you have the last surviving member 
of the family of kings and rulers described as 
wild beasts. The name of the "little horn" ought 
ere this to be on your tongue. 

But we proceed: 

6. He was to continue till "the Ancient of 
days" should appear, the judgment be set, and the 
kingdom pass to "the saints of the Most High." 
(vs. 21, 22.) Here is then the longest-lived mem- 
ber of the beastly family, not simply a product of 
a few months in the tribulation times. His place 
was to be in the head of the fourth and mightiest 
of the beasts; and he was to endure until the 
whole program changes, the beastly authority 
passes away, and the saints take the kingdom. So 
"the saints" are to supersede him. (vs. 17, 18, 
21-27.) He is their inveterate enemy. We are 
not, therefore, surprised to read : 



Who is the Beast? 57 

7. "The same horn (the little one) made war 
with the saints and prevailed against them" 
throughout the entire length of the latter half of 
the "Gentile times," which co-exists with the do- 
minion of the beasts, "until the Ancient of days 
came and (the little horn was overthrown and) 
judgment was given to the saints." (v. 22.) He 
and the saints cannot rule and exercise the do- 
minion jointly or even coetaneously. While he is 
ascendant, the saints are "prevailed against." 
When the kingdom is given to them, his power 
fails and his throne passes, his dominion ends. 
He and the saints have nothing in common, they 
are mutually antagonistic. The triumph of the 
one is the defeat of the other. Where are your 
sympathies, reader, with the beast, or with the 
saints? The beast makes war on the saints of 
God and overcomes them for the period of his 
dominion. (Rev. 13:7.) 

8. He is a great persecutor. (Daniel 
7:21.) Whc has ever persecuted so many, and 
continued his persecutions for so many centuries, 
and in so many lands, as the Pope of Rome ? Read 
P'ox's Book of Martyrs. Study the papal inquisi- 
tion. Behold the saints by millions tortured, ha- 
rassed, torn to pieces, stretched on the rack, their 
eyes burned out by hot irons, their tongues cut 
out, their boots filled with melted lead, the thumb- 
screw, the virgin's embrace, the headman's axe, 
the stake, the roasting-oven. Oh, the infernal in- 



58 Who is the Beast? 

genuity employed by the forces of the "the little 
horn" to crush the people of God, to destroy the 
Church of the first-born, to wipe the saints from 
the earth. (Dan. 7:25; Rev. 13:7.) 

9. He shall "think to change times and laws" 
(Dan. 7:25). Has not the Pope claimed to be 
above the laws of all nations, to be indeed infalli- 
ble, and hence a law unto himself? This can be 
found in many papal utterances. And what about 
the Bible? Is it a law unto the papacy? No, in- 
deed. The sole right to interpret the Bible, which 
is claimed by the Pope, puts him above the au- 
thority of the Word of God. The Pope can read 
into the Bible what he pleases, add to or detract 
from it at his pleasure. The laws of both man 
and God, may, therefore, be changed by him 
at will. If the word of God cannot be binding on 
this so-called "Infallible" what power or authority 
of men or nations can control him? 

10. It is said of the "little horn" in its rela- 
tion to the ten horns that he came up "among 
them," that is, in their territory, and he was a 
king just as they were kings, and yet it is said 
that he came "after them." (Dan. 7:7, 24.) His 
being "after" them shows that the Roman empire 
had to dissolve into the ten kingdoms first, before 
the rising of this little horn. But it also shows 
that he will arise after the ten and will continue 
longer than they. When they shall have perished, 
shall have sunk into oblivion, he continues in the 



Who is the Beast? 59 

lime-light; in short, he carries on his work "af- 
ter" them, in him the system continues ; the beast- 
ly regime lives on till its complete overthrow and 
elimination at the appearing of the King of all 
kings, the Lord Jesus Christ. 

11. His allotted time. This- is given as "a 
time, times, and the dividing of time ;" that is, as 
three and one-half years, which is the equivalent 
of forty and two months. (See Rev. 13:5; Dan. 
7:25.) This is just half of Israel's "seven times" 
of wandering. It equals 1,260 years. The papal 
power developed slowly, grew up gradually. But 
1,260 years would extend from early in the sev- 
enth century, when the emperor Phocas proclaim- 
ed the bishop of Rome, the chief of all prelates, 
the head of the Christian world, to the fall of the 
papal power, 1870. 

As we have elsewhere shown the prophecies 
generally, if not always, have a double fulfillment. 
We have also shown that there is a literal year 
and a figurative year. When the figurative year 
is used and meant it is never under the term 
"year," but under such terms as a "time" or pe- 
riod of months. In figurative use we do not read 
of "seven years," but of "seven times," nor do 
we read of three and a half years, but of a time 
(1 year) and times (2 years) and of the dividing 
of time (one-half year). As there are twelve 
months in the year, three and a half years would 
just equal forty-two months. Now this figurative 



60 Who is the Beast? 

period of a "time, times and the dividing of 
time" is on the basis of a day-for-a-year (Num- 
bers 14 :34 ; Ezek. 4 :6) ; that is, 1,260 years. Lat- 
er, we will show a literal period of forty-two 
months in the criminal reign of the Beast. But 
we will reach that phase of the case in the devel- 
opment of our subject. 



CHAPTER VI. 
Another Little Horn. 

There are two distinct little horns in the 
prophecy of Daniel. (See 7:8 and 8:9.) They 
are by no means the same. The one we have been 
examining is in the head of the fourth beast, 
whose seat of authority is Rome. The other is an 
Arabian or Syrian horn. Study the case of the 
second little horn in Daniel's account of it. There 
you will see — 

1. A ram with two horns. This was the 
Medo-Persian empire, which in the first vision of 
the beasts was presented as a bear. Now the 
figure changes and instead of the bear it is the 
ram. In some senses the figure is more clear and 
manifest than that of the bear. This ram pushes 
north, south and west, and no power could stand 
before him. He had tw r o tall horns, but one was 
higher than the other, and the higher one came 
up last. (8:3.) This ram simply means the dual 
kingdom, composed of Media and Persia. Persia 
was the younger of the two kingdoms, but became 
the greater, so much so, that Media was eventual- 
ly lost sight of and the kingdom came to be known 
only as the Persian empire. 

2. The he-goat. As the prophet was consid- 
ering the ram and his doings, suddenly there burst 

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62 Who is the Beast? 

on the scene "from the west" a he-goat, covering 
"the face of the whole earth." This pointed to 
the development of the Grecian empire and its 
great sweep of power. It is sometimes called the 
Grecian and at others the Macedonian empire. 
Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, was 
himself a noted king and conqueror. But his prog- 
ress compared with that of his greater son, was 
like a race between a horse with buggy attached 
and a steam train. We suppose Alexander would 
be listed as the greatest general who ever drew a 
sword or led an army. We believe he never lost 
a battle, and while yet but a young man he had 
conquered the known world. In the Bible story 
Alexander and his triumphs are described as fol- 
lows: "And the he-goat (the Grecian kingdom) 
had a notable horn between his eyes." This was 
Alexander the Great. "And he came to the ram 
that had the two horns (Media and Persia) .... 
and ran upon him (Darius III) in the fury of his 
power, .... and there was no power in the ram 
to stand before him ; but he cast him down to the 
ground, and trampled upon him; and there was 
none that could deliver the ram out of his hand." 
The story of the overthrow and destruction of 
Darius by Alexander is pitiable ; it is one of the 
most touching in ancient history. 

Darius had an army of six hundred thousand, 
while that of Alexander consisted of only about 
thirty-five thousand, yet the rout of the armies of 



Who is the Beast? 63 

Darius was complete, while he himself was ignobly- 
slaughtered. The overthrow of the Persian army 
and the destruction of its king is as plainly set 
forth in this prophecy of Daniel as in any history 
written after the event. Daniel informs us that 
"the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly." (v. 
8). When Alexander began his career he was 
modest and took counsel of his aged and experi- 
enced generals. But he became vain-glorious, self- 
important and very vindictive. As foretold, "he 
magnified himself exceedingly," and in a drunken 
debauch soon ended his career. He conquered the 
world but was overcome and destroyed by King 
alcohol. Young man, beware! 

When the Grecian king, or kingdom, represented 
by the he-goat, was strong, "the great horn (Al- 
exander) was broken, and instead of it there came 
up four notable horns, (Alexander's four gener- 
als, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Cassander and Ptole- 
my) ; and out of one of them (the four divisions 
of the Grecian empire, that is, out of Syria) came 
forth a little horn which waxed exceeding great, 
toward the south and toward the east and toward 
the glorious land" — Palestine, (v. 9). 

This little horn was Antiochus. There was an 
Antiochan chain of Syrian rulers, but the one who 
looms large here was Antiochus Epiphanes, IV, 
who persecuted the Jews, defiled the temple in 
Jerusalem, and set up there the statue of Jupiter 
Olympus, intending to introduce idol worship. A 



64 Who is the Beast? 

repetition of this may be "the abomination of 
desolation" spoken of by Jesus. (Matt. 24:15). 

It is said that "by him the daily sacrifice (or 
worship) was taken away." This was "by reason 
of transgression;" that is, he was allowed to do 
this because the Jews had transgressed, and God 
thus turned them over to their enemies. "It 
cast down the truth to the ground, and it prac- 
ticed and prospered." (Dan. 8:11, 12.) 

Some have taught that this "little horn" of the 
eighth of Daniel is the Antichrist, the Beast of 
Revelation. But this will not do; for this little 
horn belongs in the territory that was covered by 
the leopard, which is the third of the four great 
ruling beasts ; whereas, the final beast, as describ- 
ed in Rev. 13, is a descendant and heir of the 
great nondescript — he of the old Roman empire. 
It is the fourth beast that fathers the ultimate 
Beast. However, it can be readily seen that the 
companion and co-worker of the last Beast, viz., 
"the false prophet," comes out of Arabia and be- 
longs to the territory covered by Alexander, who 
is the leopard, or third beast and is further set 
forth as the he-goat. 

Had the final beast, the one cast into the pit at 
the return of our Lord, descended from the leop- 
ard, the third beast of Daniel's vision, he would 
have completed the beastly regime, and there 
would have been no fourth beast — the nondescript 
with the ten horns. 



Who is the Beast? 65 

We therefore discover that the beastly line has 
in it two little horns ; the one, the principal, arises 
in Rome and operates in the territory of the 
fourth great beast ; and is identified by the pluck- 
ing up of three of the ten horns ; the other arises 
in Arabia, which is the territory of the third 
beast, the four-headed leopard. This is also set 
forth as the one-horned he-goat, which subsequent- 
ly became four-horned, and out of this condition 
grew the second "notable little horn." The in- 
terpretation we have given is from the angel who 
gives it in answer to the question of Daniel. 
(Dan. 8:23). We believe it evident that An- 
tiochus is the primary fulfillment of the "little 
horn," the king of "fierce countenance." But he 
in turn is succeeded by, and perpetuated in, "the 
false prophet," whose religion has been propaga- 
ted by the sword for more than twelve bloody 
centuries. 

The careful student will recognize in Moham- 
med the false prophet. His followers affectionately 
denominate him "The Prophet." But he is not the 
prophet of God, he is an enemy and a rival of 
Christ Jesus ; his followers hate Christianity and 
Christians ; they have long sought to drive Chris- 
tianity from the earth. Mohammed is therefore 
to his people the true prophet, but to the child of 
God, the believer in the Bible, he is most emphat- 
ically "the false prophet." While Antiochus was 
originally the king of the north (Dan. 11) , he was 



66 Who is the Beast? 

succeeded and perpetuated in Mohammed. Here 
we have then the two little horns. Both are kings 
or rulers and both have a false and corrupt relig- 
ion. Each fills his place in the prophetic outline 
and in destiny. They run on parallel and yet ut- 
terly diverse lines till the age approaches its cli- 
max, when as "The Beast" and "The False 
Prophet" they unite for "the battle of the great 
day of God Almighty." (Rev. 16:13-15). 

Their doom is the same ; their overthrow simul- 
taneous. They are conquered by "the Lion of the 
Tribe of Judah." They both pass in one hour. 
Hail the day ! 



CHAPTER VII. 

The Beast Located and Identified. 

(Revelation 13th Chapter.) 

Those who have followed us in this discussion, 
have seen clearly that there is a well-defined out- 
line extending from Nebuchadnezzar to the return 
of Jesus in the clouds. It runs parallel with the 
Image revealed to the great Babylonian monarch 
and synchronizes with the New Testament revela- 
tion of "the times of the Gentiles." The Beast 
then is not a sporadic development of the tribula- 
tion times, as vainly taught by many. It is not a 
new creature merely of the last three and a half 
years of the present age, but is the culmination 
of a beastly regime of twenty-five hundred and 
twenty calendar years, which not only covers the 
Gentile times, but runs coetaneously with the 
times of Israel's wanderings, "without a king, and 
without a prince, and without a sacrifice." 

Now among students of eschatology there are 
two schools of teaching as to the Antichrist. They 
are known as, 

(a) The Historical School. 

(b) The Futurists. 

Those of the historical wing tell us that the 
Pope of Rome is the Antichrist and has been here 

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cursing, robbing and bleeding the world for a 
Devil's millennium. The Futurists say that the 
Antichrist is yet to come. That he is to arise 
during the great tribulation and rule and curse 
the world for a short period, most likely for three 
and a half years. They consider him a brutal, 
militaristic leader, who shall be king of the whole 
earth and shall re-establish the persecutions of 
both pagan and Papal Rome. His career will be- 
gin, they think, shortly after the saints are caught 
up in rapture to meet Jesus in the air. (1 Thess. 
4 : 16-18) . They tell us that this Beast is the Anti- 
christ and that he shall fill the world with war, 
blood and sorrow, creating by his brutal and gory 
rule the destructive and terrible ordeal known as 
"the great tribulation." These two schools of 
thought have each been ably represented; each 
can produce many weighty names as its sponsor. 
Many strong arguments have been given by the 
advocates of each theory in its support. For the 
present we will take it for granted that "The 
Beast" (Rev. 13), "The man of Sin" (2 Thess. 
2), and "The Antichrist" (1 John 2:22), are but 
varying titles for the one character. We will give 
reasons for this later; but at present assume it. 
Let us examine The Beast, as described in the 
Apocalypse, and see if he does not fill the demands 
of both the historical and futurist schools. We 
believe they are both fundamentally correct ; their 
only mistake being in their mutual antagonisms. 



Who is the Beast? 69 

That the historical teaching is correct we shall 
first attempt to demonstrate. But that the futur- 
ists are also right we will seek to show. They 
need to combine their teachings. It is perfectly 
clear that the beastly regime extends from Nebu- 
chadnezzar to the second coming of our Lord. 
There is no more of a gap between the first beast, 
as seen by Daniel, and the last as seen by John, 
(the one who was cast into the lake of fire), than 
there is in the Image between its head of gold and 
its feet of clay. Each of these visions covers as a 
unit the entire period known as "the times of the 
Gentiles." The Image is one, a unit; so is the 
story of the beasts. The reader will recall the 
anecdote of the men who quarrelled over the color 
of the chameleon. They almost came to blows. 
Each one vowed he knew the chameleon to be 
"red/' "green" or "black;" he knew, for he had 
seen it with his own eyes. The fact is, they were 
ail exactly right, for the chameleon changes its 
color according to the thing upon which it rests. 
The men were only wrong in disputing each oth- 
ers' word, since each was right as to fact. So our 
friends of the two schools of teaching concern- 
ing the Antichrist are both right as to fact, but 
they are wrong in rejecting each others' teach- 
ings. Let them combine. 

Is the Pope the Beast? 
1. We do not need to re-state our proofs of a 
beastly line or order which began in Babylon. 



70 WJw is the Beast? 

We have shown that he who was the head of gold 
in the Image was also the lion, the first among 
beasts ; this we feel has already been fully estab- 
lished. 

2. We feel that we have also proven beyond 
dispute that both the Image and the beast cover 
synchronously the period of time during which 
the Israelites have wandered homeless and king- 
less ; this period being known as "the times of the 
Gentiles." The Image is smashed by the stone, 
being smitten on its feet, and the last Beast was, 
taken alive and cast into a lake of fire. Thus ends 
the "times of the Gentiles" in the smashing of 
the Image and in the overthrow of the Beast. 
The continuity of the one is as well established as 
that of the other. The time is the same and the 
ending is simultaneous and they alike terminate 
in the overthrow of the beast and the destruction 
of the Image, when the kingdom of heaven is es- 
tablished on earth. Then will be set up a new 
theocracy, with Christ as Ruler and King. Hence- 
forth, the kingdom of God covers the earth, with 
Christ as its head. (Zech. 14:9). 

The first beast, the lion, erected a great Image, 
and required that all men should worship it under 
penalty of death. (Dan. 2:1-8). The final beast, 
in like manner, erects an image to the honor and 
glory of the beastly order, which he requires that 
all men shall worship or be killed. (Rev. 13:14, 
15). Here we have two kings, both listed as 



Who is the Beast? • 71 

beasts, both enforcing image worship, with a 
death penalty for disobedience. The one was the 
beginning of the beastly line, the other at its close. 
We will give you a parallel presentation of the two 
beasts — the first and the last : 

Nebuchadnezzar was : The Pope was : 

1. King. 1. A King for centuries 

2. He erected an image. and claims the same 

3. He enforced image right today, 
worship by penalty of 2. He observes and per- 
death. petuates image wor- 

They both come within : ship. Images may be 

(a) The Gentile times. found in all the Ro- 

(b) Under the beastly mish churches, and 
regime. people may be seen 

Nebuchadnezzar at its kneeling to them, 
beginning ; the Pope 3. He persecutes. Study 
at its ending. the inquisition. 

Bear in mind the parallel of the Image and the 
beast. Remember that they began at the same 
time and will end at the same period. 

Do not fail to keep in mind the overthrow of 
the Jewish kingdom by the Babylonian monarch, 
and the further fact that it will not be re-estah- 
lished "till He comes whose right it is." (Ezek. 
21:27). 

The beast is "part and parcel" of a long-drawn- 
out program. The continuity of the beastly or- 
der is an absolute proof of identity; the beast 



72 ' Who is the Beast? 

arises with the beginning of the Gentile times, 
continues through its whole length, and ends with 
its termination. Study carefully the seventh 
chapter of Daniel, in conjunction with Revelation 
13. In Daniel's vision are four beasts that do not 
co-exist, but that supplant and succeed each other. 
Also keep in mind that a beast covers a dynasty, 
and is not simply an individual king. The lion 
is not only Nebuchadnezzar, but his son, Nabonas- 
sar, and his grandson, Belshazzar, who was over- 
thrown on the night of his drunken debauch. In 
like manner the bear represents the entire period 
of the Medo-Persian dynasty. Darius was suc- 
ceeded by Cyrus, and he in turn by other Medo- 
Persian kings until the dynasty perished in the 
destruction of Darius Codomanus (III) by Alex- 
ander. Alexander, in turn, was represented by 
the leopard, but it did not stand for him alone. 
This is shown by the fact that it had four heads, 
which represented his four generals, who became 
his successors in the empire. They were as much 
a part of the leopard as was the great conqueror 
himself. The fourth beast also represented the 
entire Roman empire with Julius Caesar, Augus- 
tus Caesar, Nero, Titus, Domitian and others of 
the Roman emperors until the overthrow of the 
empire by Odoacer, who defeated the armies of 
Augustulus, after which there remained no Ro- 
man empire. 

The fourth beast, the nondescript, represented 



Who is the Beast? 73 

the old Roman empire before its fall. After this 
the beast survives in, and is represented by, the 
ten horns in Daniel, who defines these horns as 
ten kings, though no other description is given 
of these horns. They have no names or labels. 
Since no other beast is given after the great non- 
descript, it follows that the horns must fully 
represent the life and continued existence and au- 
thority of the fourth beast. No record is given 
of the beast as individuals. There comes up among 
them, however, the "little horn," to which we have 
already referred. He extends the beastly regime 
to the end of the period. The line survives in 
him, and in him only. Not simply one horn, but 
all the ten horns, are perpetuated in him ; he fills 
up and completes the age and order of the beastly 
line. It all culminates in him. Just the same as 
the Image must cover the entire period from the 
fall of the kingdom of Israel till the establishment 
of the pure theocracy, so must the same period be 
covered by the dominion of the beastly order. We 
are not left to our imaginations concerning this 
proposition, but it is plainly set forth in the Scrip- 
tures (Daniel 2 and 7) . When the beastly line is 
complete, when it culminates in the great Beast 
of Revelation 13, this end of the chain, this final 
culminating Beast, is completely overthrown and 
in him the line is completed ; in him it ends. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
What are the Beasts? 

That these beasts are not real animals of the 
forest, but are symbolical representations of men, 
is manifest. Nebuchadnezzar was not a lion, but 
a man, a great monarch. Nor was Darius a bear, 
but a man. These animals are merely given to 
represent the spirit of rulership in these kings. 

In Daniel (7:1-3) and in Revelation (13:1, 3) 
these beasts are said to come out of the sea. As 
the beasts are symbols, so is the sea. 

We read, "The waters which thou sawest, 
where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multi- 
tudes, and nations, and tongues." (Rev. 17:15). 
From this, we gather that the rising of the beasts 
from the sea is simply the exaltation of rulers 
from the people. They come up to the throne, 
these kings do, out of the sea of humanity. Thus 
we have the beasts identified as kings, rulers, men 
of authority, of power. It is true in both visions, 
that of Daniel and that of St. John. The identi- 
fication is clear. 

In the prophecy of Isaiah we have a similar fig- 
ure as to waters. Here also they represent the 
peoples. "Behold, the Lord bringeth upon them 
the waters of the river, strong and many, even 

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Who is the Beast? 75 

the king of Assyria, and all his glory; and he 
shall come up over all his channels and over his 
banks." (Isaiah 8 :7) . Thus we have the beasts 
described as men coming from the people and 
reigning in beastliness over them. Their rule is 
the dominion of wild, destructive, all-devouring 
beasts ; they scramble for position, they fight for 
power, they seek their own glory at the expense 
of humanity. 

The Beast as seen by John coming up out of 
the sea of humanity, is, like all the others, a man ; 
but he is a strange creature. He has "seven 
heads and ten horns." What is the significance 
of this? It is for the purpose of identification. 
Can we find a beast of this description elsewhere? 
We certainly can. In chapter twelve, verse three, 
we find the dragon (the devil) with seven heads 
and ten horns. Then again, we read of a woman 
which sat upon a scarlet-colored beast, "having 
seven heads and ten horns." (Rev. 17 :3) . Once 
more, we read, "The seven heads are seven moun- 
tains on which the woman sitteth ; and there are 
seven kings." (Rev. 17:9, 10). Here is a double 
mark of identification. Rome, known as the eter- 
nal city, is built on seven hills, and there are also 
seven types of rulers that have exercised power in 
her history. They alike represent the seven heads. 

The ten horns, as we have elsewhere shown, are 
the ten kings that divided among themselves the 
empire of Rome after its dissolution in A. D. 476. 



76 Who is the Beast? 

(See Daniel 7:24). That this beast as seen by 
St. John is the culmination of the original beastly 
order, is shown by his appearance. John says of 
him, "The beast which I saw was like unto a leop- 
ard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and 
his mouth as the mouth of a lion : and the dragon 
gave him his power, and his seat, and great au- 
thority." (Rev. 13 :2) . Thus we have a compos- 
ite beast, bearing in himself all the elements, as 
w^ell as the likeness, of the original three beasts. 
It will be observed that "his mouth is as the mouth 
of a lion." The lion is known especially by his 
roar, which sends a shiver through all the beasts 
of the forest. Just so, this great beast is known 
by his roar ; by his great claims, by his wonderful 
demands. In short, the mouth is the biggest part 
about him; his profession is the most notable 
thing connected with him. He is long on pro- 
fession and short on practice. 

"I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to 
death ; and his deadly wound was healed : and all 
the world wondered after the Beast." (Rev. 13 :3) . 
The head was not simply injured, crippled, hurt; 
but it was "wounded unto death." When the head 
of a man or beast is killed we are supposed to be 
entirely rid of him. Nothing more need be ex- 
pected of him whose head is "wounded unto 
death." But the miracle happens ; the head that 
was killed lives again. What is the head that was 
thus wounded ? Is it not the kingly authority and 



Who is the Beast? 77 

power of "the little horn" ? The Pope claims that 
his powers converge into two heads, viz., temporal 
or kingly power and spiritual power. He claims 
by divine right to possess the two swords of tem- 
poral and spiritual dominion. That is, he pro- 
poses to be the head of both the church, the relig- 
ious order, and the temporal or kingly order. Just 
as my ten fingers merge into my two hands, so 
with the Pope; the seven heads of ancient Rome 
merge into these two heads of temporal and spir- 
itual power. Which head was wounded unto 
death? The head of temporal power. Was not 
the Pope king in Rome for centuries? Did he not 
exercise the kingly office, or rulership, in the pa- 
pal states for more than a thousand years? But 
is he king today? No. His office of king was 
taken from him in 1870, A. D., by the armies of 
reunited Italy under Victor Immanuel. This 
kingly power was not simply injured, hurt, crip- 
pled; it was killed outright, it was "wounded unto 
death." This is not theory, but fact. The head 
of temporal power has been destroyed. The Pope 
is no longer king. The Italian armies, which had 
fought for liberty and justice, for their rights and 
freedom, invaded Rome and completely defeated 
the armies of Pope Pius IX in September, 1870. 
The government at Rome had been notable for 
graft, corruption, and general inefficiency. No 
more rotten government has been known in any 
nation than was the papal bureaucracy. Accord- 



78 Who is the Beast? 

ingly, no compromise was allowable. The papal 
government was overthrown and a government of 
the people, with a constitutional monarchy, was 
established. The Pope was dispossessed of the 
throne, the scepter and the crown. He lost his 
kingdom and so "one of his heads was wounded 
unto death." The people to this day curse the 
clerical grafters who robbed and oppressed them 
in the days of papal sovereignty. 

But even yet the papal intriguers are bending 
their energies to secure a return of papal power. 
They strive by every means to bring back the day 
when "the Holy Father" shall again be king in 
Rome. Woe be the day of their success, 
the time when the papal plotters shall secure 
for him the crown, the sceptre and the 
throne. Will the Pope ever again be king 
in Rome? Yes, he will be king not only 
of Rome, but of the world. "But," says one, "im- 
possible! that can never be." Would that you 
were right, my friend. But a higher authority 
than you or I tells us of the coming time when the 
head that was wounded to death shall be healed^ 
Is the Bible inspired? Is it the word of God? 
Are its utterances absolutely true? We are not 
of the higher critics who pick the Bible to pieces. 
It is either true or false. There is no middle 
ground; what it says is true and will be 
carried out to the letter, or it is a tissue of false- 
hoods. This divinely-inspired Word of the eter- 



Who is the Beast? 79 

nal God tells us that the wounded head shall be 
healed. As surely as the Bible is an inspired 
book, just so surely shall the wounded head be 
restored. The thing foretold shall come to pass. 

Note the effect of the healing of the wounded 
head, when "all the world wondered after the 
beast. And they worshipped the dragon which 
gave power unto the beast; and they worshipped 
the beast, saying, Who is like unto the 
beast? Who is able to make war with 
him?" (Rev. 13:3, 4). We have no choice as to 
fact. We must accept the statement of prophecy 
as true, and look for the healing of the wounded 
head; or we must denounce the prophecy as a 
falsehood. To some, these things may seem hard 
of acceptance. Men do not want to believe in a 
restoration of the Pope's temporal power. We do 
not blame them. It grieves us sorely. Indeed, 
many of God's prophetic announcements have 
struck the hearers with amazement, as when the 
angel told Zacharias and Elizabeth of the coming 
child whose "name shall be called John;" as 
when Abraham was foretold of the Isaac-to-be, 
and as when Gabriel told Mary that she should 
bring forth a child and should "call his name Je- 
sus." All, with one accord, began to cry, "How 
shall these things be?" 

But they came to pass on schedule time. They 
occurred exactly as foretold, for they are given by 
inspiration ; they were the words of the living God. 



80 Who is the Beast? 

He knows the end from the beginning. His word 
is truth. Not a jot or tittle of it shall fail. It 
will happen even as He said. This being true, the 
head that was wounded to death shall be healed. 
Which head was this? The head of temporal 
power, the kingly position. Then the Pope shall 
again be king? Exactly. And where, in Rome? 
Yes, but his dominion in that day shall be world- 
wide. In him shall live again the whole beastly 
regime. We remember that the question is rais- 
ed, and it will soon be heard again, "Who is able 
to make war with the beast ?" 

It is well to look backward for a moment. The 
four beasts, the lion, the bear, the leopard, and the 
greatest of them all, the mighty nondescript, were 
all earth-rulers. Their kingdoms are those that 
in history are called the world-empires. They 
ruled the nations of the then-known world. Af- 
ter the overthrow of the fourth beast, the one 
whose dominion was the greatest of them all, 
there was no other beast set forth in prophecy. 
And there was no other world-ruler. The ten 
horns divided among themselves the old Roman 
empire. But the beastly lineage survives in "the 
little horn." His kingdom was small, but his in- 
fluence covered the earth. It fills the gap between 
the old Roman kingdom of glory and power — that 
covered the earth — and the great beast that comes 
up out of the sea in the vision of St. John. He 
revives the kingdom, power, and rulership of the 



Who is the Beast? 81 

mighty nondescript. His dominion is again a re- 
vived world-empire. He combines the nature and 
the power of the three great beasts in himself. He 
is the leopard, the bear, and the lion all combined 
into one. Truly he is the one that was "diverse" 
from all the other beasts, even as his great pro- 
genitor. What was the seat of the fourth beast? 
Rome, the seven-hilled city. It is here we find 
this great final beast, the one of seven heads and 
the ten horns. The great fourth kingdom, combin- 
ing all the world-empires, and the four beasts that 
have preceded it, all are here. 

All these dominions, with their combined 
strength and their symbols, are represented in 
this final composite beast. His head, having been 
wounded to death, stands before the eyes of the 
wondering world — healed and crowned. In 
amazement they cry, "Who is able to make war 
with the beast?" His power is great, his influence 
is enormous, his following like the sands upon the 
shore. The populations of the earth are divided 
into two classes, the adherents of the beast, his 
followers, worshippers and willing tools, and those 
who repudiate his power and, instead, follow the 
Lamb.. "Power was given him over all kindreds, 
and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell up- 
on the earth shall worship him, whose names are 
not written in the book of life, of the Lamb slain 
from the foundation of the world." (Rev. 13 :7, 8) . 



CHAPTER IX. 

When Shall These Things Be? 

Not for the present. They will occur when Je- 
sus comes back to earth. At that day He will 
sound His trumpet ; the holy dead shall be raised, 
the holy living translated, and these shall be joint- 
ly caught up to meet the Lord in the air. This 
is known as "The Rapture." The saints shall 
then, and forever thereafter, be with the Lord. 
(1 Thess. 4:16-18). When these saints are caught 
up, there shall break over the world the time de- 
scribed as "The Great Tribulation?" It will be a 
time of affliction, of sorrow, and of trouble, such 
as the world never saw. (Dan. 12:1; Matt. 24:21, 
22). Such tribulation shall consist of wars, pes- 
tilences, famines, earthquakes, and even demons 
will be let loose on earth. (Rev. 9:1-16). In 
those awful days, men shall desire to die, but 
death shall flee from them. It is during this pe- 
riod of tribulation that the beast shall receive 
world-dominion and shall afflict the nations with 
his vicious rulership. Those who are ready to 
meet Jesus at His coming will not suffer the afflic- 
tions of this awful tribulation. It is with refer- 
ence to this day of testing that our Lord says, 
"Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your 

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Who is the Beast? 83 

hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunk- 
enness, and cares of this life, and so that day come 
upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come 
on all them that dwell on the face of the whole 
earth." Accordingly he exhorts us saying, 
"Watch ye therefore and pray always, that ye may 
be accounted worthy to escape all these things 
that shall come to pass, and to stand before the 
Son of man." (Luke 21 :34, 36). Some will es- 
cape this dire scourge; others will not. Such as 
are left in the tribulation shall find themselves un- 
der the dominion of the Devil and the great Beast. 
Then will be fulfilled, the things we have discov- 
ered in the prophecy. Then will the Beast have 
dominion over the whole earth. 

During the past ages the saints have been few. 
The church has been called out, a separated body. 
They have heard the Master's "Come out from 
among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord." 
(2 Cor. 6:17). 

But the Beast was never without a large follow- 
ing. He has no moral standard, his religion is a 
religion of form. Men do not object to a ritualis- 
tic religion, one that allows them to follow their 
lusts, to seek their pleasures and live after their 
unholy desires. The Beast has discarded the Bi- 
ble, has invented a substitute for the Holy Ghost 
and has placed Ihimself in the chair of Christ. 
His "traditions" have supplanted the Scriptures 
and he has thereby made "the word of God of none 



84 Who is the Beast? 

effect." His dupes have prayed to dead saints; 
yes, even to their images, and have trusted more 
in Mary than in her Divine Son. He has erected 
images and burnt candles in the house of God, as 
a substitute for the divine light, the light that 
shines from heaven upon a trusting heart. He 
has taken his place in the temple of God, where he 
shows himself off as God. He demands that men 
shall kneel in his presence, make their confessions 
to him or to his representatives. 

Men call him "His Holiness" ; inspiration calls 
him "The man of Sin"; his dupes call him "The 
Holy Father," but inspiration calls him "The son 
of perdition." The Bible calls him "that Wicked." 
The labels of Scripture are correct ones. 

"There was given unto him a mouth speaking 
great things and blasphemies." This is the "lit- 
tle horn" we found in Daniel 7. The same blas- 
phemies are mentioned in both prophecies. (See 
Dan. 7:8, 20, 25; Rev. 13). 

The time of his dominion is also the same, be- 
ing revealed to both Daniel and John. In the 
older c prophecy the time allotted him is measured 
by the symbolical period, viz., "A time, and times, 
and the dividing of time." In the vision of John 
this same period is given where we read that he 
shall "continue forty and two months." Forty 
and two calendar months of thirty days each make 
a total of twelve hundred and sixty days. A time 
is one year; times, two years; and the dividing 



Who is the Beast? 85 

of time one-half year. This in the calendar month 
makes the same period as the forty and two 
months of John's vision, viz., twelve hundred and 
sixty days. As we have already shown, these 
prophetic measurements are often intended to em- 
brace a long period, at the rate of a day for a year. 
But sometimes they are literal days. That the 
symbolical time of the "little horn" continues for 
twelve hundred and sixty years, and that this 
last great Beast will carry on his brutal reign for 
twelve hundred and sixty literal days, that is, for 
three and one-half years, we believe is true. 
Twelve hundred and sixty years is the symbolical 
period of the "little horn," whereas three and one 
half years is the literal reign of the restored 
Beast. "But hold," says one, "that image is 
erected by the second beast, to the honor of the 
first beast." Very well. Let us study then the 
second beast. It is he whom our brethren of the 
futurist school have pointed out as the coining 
Antichrist. It is he of whom they speak and 
write under the title of "The Beast." It is well, 
therefore, that we give attention to the distinction 
between the two beasts set before us in the thir- 
teenth chapter of Revelation. It will be observed 
that the first beast, like those seen by Daniel, came 
out of the sea. Not so with the second beast. He 
did not come out of the sea, but out of the earth, 
more literally perhaps, out of the pit. A careful 
examination of 



86 Who is the Beast? 

The Second Beast 

Reveals him as a demon incarnate. The beasts 
that have preceded him have all been human. If 
we go back to the origin of the beastly regime, be- 
ginning with the lion, and passing on down 
through the bear, the leopard, and the great fourth 
beast, we find that they are all but symbols of hu- 
man and earthly rulers. But this final beast, 
coming out of the earth, is not a mere man ; he is 
a great demon-begotten, super-human; he pos- 
sesses in himself a dual nature of man and devil. 
Just as Jesus is the God-man, possessing in Him- 
self perfect God-head and perfect humanity, so 
this beast out of the pit combines in himself the 
real nature of man, joined in the very nature of 
demons. Christ is God and man in one being, this 
great super-man, coming from the infernal re- 
gions, unites in himself all the virulence of the 
pit, of hell ; and yet is clothed in human person- 
ality. Observe : 

1. He is in line with his beastly predecessors. 
He is one with them. The Beast here revealed is 
not a hitherto undiscovered character. He oc- 
cupies a throne long encumbered by men, but 
henceforth the seat of his own demoniacal power. 
He has certain characteristics but is not a spo- 
radic, ephemeral, independent, new comer. He 
is part of the twenty-five-hundred-and-twenty 
year beastly regime. He is merely the culmina- 
tion of an order that antedates the Christian era. 



Who is the Beast? 87 

He comes into the same order as the lion, the bear, 
the leopard, etc. He is not an enemy and rival 
of those who have preceded him. He is their suc- 
cessor, the complement of their unfinished line of 
beastly rulership. He falls in line with all those 
who have gone before him. He is simply one of 
them. They were of the Gentile times, so is he. 
They are against God and His saints, so is he. 
They opposed holiness in the earth and human 
freedom, so does he. They were autocrats, so is 
he. They sought power and dominion ; so does he. 
They worshipped images, promoted image wor- 
ship; so does he. They antagonized the Lamb of 
God ; so does he. They hated vital Christianity ; 
so does he. They sought their own aggrandize- 
ment and glory ; so does he. They slew those who 
opposed their will ; so does he. They were cruel, 
heartless, oppressive; so is he. They persecuted 
the saints of God ; so does he. They established 
boycotts, seeking to prevent any one prospering, 
or obtaining a living, who opposed them ; so does 
he. 

2. He is hell's last and greatest representative, 
being of the pit, possessing the very nature and 
spirit of Satan. He is aptly labelled, "The Son 
of Perdition." 

His predecessors have the same spiritual origin, 
but they are not physically and materially his 
equal ; being of the earth, they have their human 
limitations, whereas, coming from the pit, he is 



88 Who is the Beast? 

not restricted as were they. His power is great- 
er, his vision keener, his strategy more effective. 
Jesus is the God-man. He carries in His own per- 
son deity, God-head, and yet this is linked with 
human nature. This great Beast before us com- 
bines humanity with Satanic personality. He is 
a demon-man and comes into power in order, if 
possible, to offset the mission and work of the 
God-man ; as Christ is God's Son, so this Beast is 
Satan's son. The Devil has tried for centuries 
to defeat God. He has used every power at his 
command — Paganism, Mohammedanism, politico- 
ecclesiasticism. He has substituted for the gos- 
pel the commandments and traditions of men, has 
exalted Popes and priests, and has striven by all 
the arts of hell to supplant and off -set the work of 
Christ Jesus in the earth. 

Nov/ the issue is clearly defined. At the time 
of the conflict under consideration Christ Jesus as 
the Bridegroom has already come and taken away 
His Bride. The real saints have been caught up 
to reign with their Lord. Satan "hath great 
wrath for he knowetli that his time is short." The 
beasts of human origin have served him well. 
During the long ages of earth's midnight they 
have carried on his work among men. But the 
conquering Christ will soon appear with His glo- 
rified saints, with those who have been with Him 
in the rapture. His appearing will make an end 
to Satanic work in the earth. When Jesus returns 



Who is the Beast? 89 

to the earth, the Gentile times will end, the do- 
minion of the Beast will be overthrown. This 
will be the defeat of the legions of hell. Satan is 
well aware of these things. He becomes desper- 
ate. He says Christ is the God-man, incarnate 
deity. My human popes have served me well. 
For ages they have burned Bibles, persecuted 
saints, destroyed liberty, and plagued the earth. 
But the final struggle is on. Armageddon is at 
hand. Jesus Himself is coming as a mighty Con- 
queror: no mere man is equal to the contest. I 
alone can meet Him; as He is God's Son clothed 
in human flesh, I also must have a human repre- 
sentative, possessing my nature and life. He, a 
demon, shall dwell incarnate, and go forth to wage 
war with the Son of my ancient Enemy. I will 
not change my machinery. It is tested and tried. 
It is the result of careful toil. Popery is unsur- 
passed. Even when the papal chair was occupied 
by mortal man it has served me well ; has kept the 
nations in ignorance and superstition ; but the final 
conflict now approaches. Hell must be better and 
more effectively represented. In the beastly line 
popes faked many miracles. But my demon son, 
clothed in flesh, will not be forced to fall back 
upon make-believe miracles. He shall perform 
the real, can make an image to speak, can call 
fire down out of heaven, can do great wonders, 
and can deceive earth-dwellers by means of these 
miracles which I have power to perform. ,% (See 
Rev. 13:15.) 



90 Who is the Beast? 

So he sends his own son, a demon in the like- 
ness of men, to take up the fight against our 
Lord. He provides no new machinery ; Popery is 
his best. He simply furnishes a stronger occupant 
for the papal chair. In confirmation of this as- 
sertion we read : "He exerciseth all the power of 
the first beast which was before him." (v. 12.) 

No new office is created, no new order devised. 
The office is the same ; only the one who occupies 
it is greater than his predecessors. Hitherto a 
man was sufficient for the beastly office. A Nebu- 
chadnezzar, a Darius, an Alexander, a Caesar, and 
a long chain of papal occupants, have proven 
sufficient for Satanic purposes. But now the fight 
grows too hot ; hell's defeat is imminent ; the Di- 
vine, all-sufficient Conqueror approaches, with 
the armies of the skies. Hell rises to meet the 
issue ; Satan's super-man is placed upon the throne 
of the Beast and becomes its last and greatest 
occupant. The power is not simply in the indi- 
vidual, but in the office. Woodrow Wilson, the 
man, may be great; but Woodrow Wilson, the 
President, exerciseth not his personal power on- 
ly, but an official authority, which is backed by 
the resources of a great nation. So the throne 
of the beast has marvellous power, though the 
occupants have hitherto been but men. Now to 
the power of the office is added the power of hr 
who is more than a man, even a demon incarnate. 
Added to the supernatural qualifications of this 



Who is the Beast? 91 

second beast we have here the force, authority, 
and power of the whole beastly system, the papal 
office and prerogative. 

Our readers will remember that when the 
Kaiser launched this great world-holocaust, his 
war secretary was Falkenhayn; but as the con- 
flict deepened the Kaiser said, "Come down, Falk- 
enhayn; you cannot fill the bill. You are unable 
to hold down the job. You have been faithful, 
have proven true; I will continue to use you as 
the head of an army, but I shall put Hindenburg 
in your place." In like manner, Satan sets aside 
Benedict and puts one of his own offspring on the 
papal throne. This beast, as we have seen, is 
from the pit, but he exerciseth all the papal power 
and manages the office of the beast, whose throne 
heretofore was occupied by man. The beast as yet 
is but human, though possessing great official 
power. The second beast will possess both 
official and super-human power. Does Sa- 
tan reproach the beast of former ages? He 
does not. Instead, he erects an image to perpetu- 
ate his honor and glory. The popes have too well 
served his purpose for him now to reproach them. 
They are worthy of all the honors which he may 
confer upon them. Hence the image is erected, 
and all men under the penalty of death are re- 
quired to worship it. This demon pope seeks to 
glorify the papacy as a system. He erects the 
image in commemoration of his predecessors. The 



92 Who is the Beast? 

roots of the system run deep into the by-gone cen- 
turies. The papacy of the Dark Ages is the pa- 
pacy of today. Its boast is, "We change not." It 
perpetuates the dominion of the beast. The sys- 
tem is one, from its inception under the Babylon- 
ian monarch, to its culmination in the great su- 
per-man out of the pit, he who is captured alive 
and cast into hell by the Lord Jesus Christ at 
His appearing with the saints. 



CHAPTER X. 
The Two Horns Like a Lamb. 

Many have wondered about these two lamb- 
like horns. We should have no trouble witn this. 
The two little horns are plainly set before us in 
the Scriptures, as we have already shown from 
the eighth and ninth chapters of Daniel. While 
Antiochus IV is manifestly the primary fulfill- 
ment of the second little horn, yet the career of 
Antiochus was fulfilled in the long ago. He ran 
his race, fought his battles, accomplished his pur- 
pose, or rather the divine purpose in him, and 
passed away. 

As the little horn of Daniel eighth he had a 
successor. In the sixth century of the Christian 
era there arose in the bounds of the old Macedo- 
nian empire, the region of the leopard, and of 
the he-goat, another religious leader, who also 
possessed the crown and scepter of the kingdom. 
That was Mohammed. His career was entirely 
distinct from, and antagonistic to, that of the 
Pope. Each had his kingdom. Each had his re- 
ligion. Each was full of boasting and of great 
claims to world-rulership. Each professed to be 
God's chosen representative. According to their 
teachings and their self-laudatory claims they 

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94 Who is the Beast? ^ 2 § 

each were the pet of heaven. God had confided "r £ta 
His work in the earth to them. Their triumph '^^v | i 
was the triumph of truth. Their victory was the ,^fe^ 
victory of heaven. They were rivals. They pos- ^j \M ^ 
sessed nothing in common, except their boastful- \v ]^ 
ness, their great claims, their haughty preten- NN 
sions. If the Pope triumphs, Mohammedanism Wo | 
shall be swept from the earth. To the contrary, ^ v 
the triumph of Mohammedanism will be the utter ^ , 
rout and overthrow of the papacy. They are ene- ^ ^ ^ 
mies of each other. But there is one thing in ^n|~ ^ ^ 
which the little horns agree: Each claims 



2^1 





right to rule the world and to represent God 
hammed repudiates Christ. He does not acknowl 
edge Jesus as the Messiah. He rejects the Media- y 
torship of the Man of Calvary. He himself com- ^ 
municates with God and represents Allah. His- 
sway must be universal. The nations must bend 
to his scepter. The kingdoms must surrender to ' ^3\c 
his will. The religion of the world must be the/^^ ^ 
religion of his crown. 4 ^ 

On the other hand, the Pope theoretically ac- ^ ^-- 
cepts Christ. He recognizes Jesus, Son of Mary, ]lj^ ^ 
as the world's Redeemer. So far, so good. But 'J 5 ^^^ 
consider further, and we will find that while the ^ ^ * v < 
Pope confesses Jesus as Lord and Savior, he puts 
himself in the place of Christ. Christ Jesus is 
infallible ; but this infallibility inheres in the Pope.>S^tr 
Christ forgives sins. But the power of absolu- ^ ^ ^ 
tion passes to the Pope and the priest. Men 




Who is the Beast? 95 

should confess their sins to God through Christ. 
But the priest steps in between the penitent and 
his God and demands that the confession be pour- 
ed into his ear. Yes, Christ forgives sin, but lo, 
He is not needed, the priest will absolve the peni- 
tent. Christ is the rightful ruler of the world. 
But even here there is no place for Him ; the Pope 
assumes unto himself the crown of kingly glory 
and the scepter of universal empire. Christ Jesus 
is great, He is Lord of heaven and earth ; sinners 
kneel in penitence at His feet. Again, we find 
that Christ is set aside; the Pope, taking the 
throne, demands that men kneel before him as 
their Lord and ruler. Jesus said, "One is your 
Lord and Master, and all ye are brethren." But 
the Pope cannot accept this fiat of our Lord. He 
is a law unto himself. He cannot take his place 
among the "brethren." He must be chief, must 
be Lord of all. Let his fellows exalt him; let 
them cast themselves at his feet; let them call 
him, "His Holiness." What is he? He is not an 
honest enemy of Christ, as is Mohammed. In- 
stead, he is a rival, a supplanter, a counterfeit, a 
false Christ. In short, he is the Anti-christ. 

Thus we find the two little horns running par- 
allel adown the ages, for lo, these many centuries. 
They loom large in the world's history. But they 
shall come to a sudden and fearful ending. In the 
end of this age, the closing period of the Gentile 
times, they reconcile their differences, unite their 



96 Who is the Beast? 

purposes, join their forces, and make common 
cause in the final conflict against the mighty King 
of kings. The beast, the outgrowth and culmi- 
nation of the Roman "little horn," and the "false 
prophet," the outgrowth and culmination of the 
Syrian "little horn," shall be overthrown, capt- 
ured and cast into hell when the King of glory ap- 
pears to reign. 

We have been tracing the two horns from one 
viewpoint. Let us remember that nearly if not 
all prophecy has a double fulfillment. One fulfill- 
ment is perhaps stretched out through the cen- 
turies, while another and different one may be the 
accomplishment of a few months. We will seek 
to locate the two horns as now growing up to be 
developed at a future period. We recall that the 
horn is a symbol of power. It represents in gov- 
ernment kingship, in a hierarchy it represents 
bishopric. Now the Pope claims to be the head 
of both church and state, that is, he pos- 
sesses the two horns, or, as he words it, 
the two swords. We read, "The Pope by vir- 
tue of his dignity is at the summit of both powers, 
the temporal and the spiritual." Civilta Catolica, 
official organ of Pope Pius IX, March 18, 1871. 

Here are your two horns, the Pope's headship 
in the spiritual realm and in the political. Just 
one we remember was killed, viz., his kingship, 
and this is to be healed. These horns were the 
horns of a lamb. That is, they were small and 



Who is the Beast? 97 

very harmless in appearance; innocent-looking 
things they were. We will venture to suggest that 
these little horns are even now developing before 
our eyes. Do you ask how? A great movement 
is on foot for the union of all churches into one. 
The cry is, "Get together." It will soon be accom- 
plished. It is such an innocent, lamb-like thing; 
who can object? The so-called Protestant church- 
es have practically ceased to protest. Which of 
them denounces the aggressions of Romanism? 
They are moving rapidly in the direction of union, 
first of all, among themselves. When all these 
Protestants shall have united the question will be 
raised, "What about the old mother church?" Of 
course, it will be decided that the union will not 
be complete until fellowship with Rome is re- 
stored. The Pope, sitting on the throne of his 
dignity, will say, "Come right in, gentlemen; I 
am waiting for you." And in they will go. Be- 
hold the horn of the lamb — one of them. But an- 
other arises. There is before us even now a mighty 
movement which is intended to formulate a 
league of nations for the prevention of war. Men 
tell us of the coming federation of the world. In 
great optimism they foresee the coming day when 
all nations will thus be leagued and shall prevent 
the further folly and wickedness of war. In some 
measure this national union will undoubtedly be 
accomplished — this federation. To all human ap- 
pearances, it is right, and even feasible. Surely 



98 Who is the Beast? 

no sane man can oppose such effort. Writer and 
reader would alike commend its noble purpose — 
the making an end of war. When the feder- 
ation is formed, when "The United States of the 
World" is an accomplished fact, the question will 
again arise, "Who shall be the president of the 
world federation?" The answer rings back from 
many directions, "Why, the Holy Father, of 
course." Not necessarily at first, but sooner or 
later. And it will be as suggested. And be- 
hold we have two horns as of a lamb, and they are 
both in the head of the Beast, they come within 
the compass of the beastly regime. But in their 
formation, how harmless, yea, commendable, how 
lamb-like ! But though the horns are so innocent- 
looking, the speech is different ; it is a voice from 
the pit. 'He spake as a dragon" (Rev. 13:11). 
Not only is the voice that of the dragon, but the 
authority is from the same source. It is an in- 
fernal power by which he works. "The dragon 
gave him his power, and his seat and great au- 
thority." 

Do you say, "Impossible! The Pope will never 
get back his temporal power?" But the Book 
says, "the head that was wounded was healed." 
It also declares that "All the world wondered af- 
ter the Beast and worshiped him." (13:4, 8.) 
That this is not a prophecy of the past is shown 
conclusively by the fact that the Beast is here in 
all his devilish power when Jesus comes the sec- 



Who is the Beast? 99 

ond time to establish His reign (Rev. 19). Jesus 
shall then destroy this "Man of sin" with the 
brightness of His appearing. (II Thess. 2:8-10.) 

The Boycott. 

The Beast is up to all his old tricks. He la- 
bels his own. They have his mark in their hands 
and in their foreheads. He uses the sign of the 
cross in order to pretend friendship with the 
Crucified. Those who will not make the sign, will 
not wear the label, shall be forthwith put out of 
business. They may neither buy nor sell. Who 
has not seen a whole town or city afraid to say 
their souls were their own, lest the papal boycott 
put them out of business? It can be found ac- 
complishing the purpose of the Beast in any large 
city. Even gospel preachers lose their pulpits; 
teachers lose their positions; lawyers their cli- 
ents ; statesmen their offices ; doctors their prac- 
tice ; clerks and laboring men their earnings ; pub- 
lishers their subscribers and advertising patron- 
age; merchants and tradesmen their customers; 
and even families lose their friends if they of- 
fend the Beast. The decree has gone forth, Serve 
the Beast or perish, obey him or be crushed by 
his power. Nothing can stand before it in the 
day of the Beast's enthronement. 

The Number of His Name. 
In the Bible numbers have special significance. 
The number seven is sacred. It would be inter- 



100 Who is the Beast? 

esting to trace this fact. But it is aside from our 
purpose. Six is an evil number, and the number 
of the Beast is a trinity of sixes. This implies 
that his name is evil, it carries within it that mul- 
tiplicity of evil that befits the character so labeled. 
We give our readers the conclusions of Rev. B. 
W. Johnson: "John wrote in the Greek Lan- 
guage for readers who understood that tongue. 
The number is evidently then to be expressed in 
Greek characters* The Greeks did not express by 
figures, but by letters — just as among the Romans, 
X stood for ten and C for one hundred. Six hun- 
dred and sixty-six could be expressed by spelling 
out the words in the Greek language, or by using 
the letters which were symbols for various quanti- 
ties. Let us try the latter method. 



Lambda 


L:::: 


30 


Alpha 


A:::: 


1 


Tau 


T- 


300 


Epsilon 


E- 


5 


Iota 


I,.: 


10 


Nu 


N- 


50 


Omicron 


0- 


70 


Sigma 


S:::: 


200 




Lateinos 


666 



"And what is this name? The number of a 
man ; the Greek method of spelling the name Lati- 
nus, the reputed founder of the Latin race. 



Who is the Beast? 101 

But what more is it? Rome is the ancient cap- 
ital of the Latins. The Romans were a Latin race 
and spoke the Latin language. The Roman 
Church is officially called the Latin Church, to dis- 
tinguish it from the Greek Church, the other 
branch of the ancient schism. The Catholic sa- 
cred books (and ritual) are written in the Latin; 
the worship is conducted in every country in the 
Latin alone, and when a Catholic council con- 
venes, all its conferences are conducted in the 
tongue of the ancient Latins. There is, then, a 
Latin church, whose official and sacred speech is 
the Latin language, which has for its seat the 
ancient Latin capital. That body is the great 
Apostate Church, upon whose head the names of 
blasphemy have been written, which has claimed 
universal dominion upon the earth, and has slain 
the saints of the Most High. Its name is the 
number of the beast, and that name, Lateinos, the 
name or the number, of a man, "is 666." The au- 
thor adds, ''This is so wonderful that there is no 
possibility of error. The Papacy, beyond possi- 
bility of doubt, is the beast." 

From "A Vision of the Ages." (pp. 272-3). 

In this, the above writer agrees with many 
others, and is supported by Rev. W. B. Godbey. 
See his Commentary in loco. 



CHAPTER XL 

When Will the Beast Be King of the World? 

Many are concerned over this question : Will 
his kingdom be restored to the Beast at an early 
day? The time certainly draweth nigh. We are 
in the culmination of the ages. The centuries are 
converging upon the end period. His dominion 
will be during the great tribulation. When Jesus 
shall come again, He will catch up His saints in 
the air to meet Him and be with Him forever. 
This is the marriage supper of the Lamb. It is 
sometimes called The Rapture. While the saints 
are with Jesus the earth will be in the throes of 
judgment. This period of suffering and sorrow 
upon the earth is called in the words of Jesus, 
The Great Tribulation, He and Daniel agree in 
describing it as a time of sorrow and affliction 
"such as was not since the beginning of the world 
to this time, no, nor ever shall be." (Dan. 12:1; 
Matt. 24:21, 22.) 

Will the saints go through this tribulation ? No, 
thank God, they shall not. Speaking of this dread- 
ful hour Jesus says, "As a snare shall it come on 
all them that dwell on the face of the whole 
earth." (Luke 21:34, 35.) This could not have 
been fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem by 

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Who is the Beast? 103 

the Roman armies, under Titus, as some have 
taught ; for that was confined to Palestine, where- 
as, the coming tribulation shall cover "the face 
of the whole earth." This is conclusive. The 
tribulation is yet to be. 

Now, reader, learn from scripture how you 
may escape this dreadful scourge. Our Master 
said, "Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that 
ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these 
things that shall come to pass and to stand before 
the Son of man." (Luke 21 :36) . Some then shall 
surely escape. And who are they? The watch- 
ing, waiting, ever-praying ones. Reader, are you 
one of these? Once more hear Jesus, "Because 
thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also 
will keep thee from the hour of temptation (trial, 
tribulation) which shall come upon all the world, 
to try them that dwell upon the earth." (Rev. 
3:10.) A world-wide tribulation! But there are 
those who escape. It behooves us to be ready for 
the hour of testing. This world-scourge shall be 
under the dominion of the Beast. Hear the Word, 
"It was given unto him to make war with the 
saints, and to overcome them : and power was giv- 
en him over all kindreds and tongues and na- 
tions." (Rev. 13:7.) This is after the healing 
of the head that was wounded unto death. The 
little horn made war with the saints throughout 
the centuries, but eventually his temporal power 
was lost, his imperial authority perished, his do- 



104 Who is the Beast? 

minion passed away. But this is only for a sea- 
son. Now, at last his kingly power is restored and 
for a limited time it shall cover the earth. The 
symbolic period of his dominion was given by 
Daniel as "a time, and times, and the dividing of 
time." (Dan. 7:25.) This is the same as the 
forty-two months, or twelve hundred and sixty 
days as we have elsewhere proven. 

When applied symbolically, this covers a pe- 
riod of twelve hundred and sixty years. When 
applied literally it is twelve hundred and sixty 
days or three years and a half. The autocratic 
power and authority of the Pope have already con- 
tinued through the longer period. His restored 
dominion of the earth shall most probably, yea, 
certainly, last for the shorter period, three and 
one-half years. The symbolic period was not 
stated in "months," but as "times." The literal 
period, of the dominion to be, is given as forty-two 
months. We know of no instance in which the 
word "months" is used symbolically. We believe 
therefore the year-for-a-day period is described 
under the "times" figure, whereas the literal pe- 
riod is given as literal months. Thus we have 
the papal power described symbolically as a period 
of twelve hundred and sixty years, followed by the 
wounding of his head unto death, and this in turn 
by the healing of the wounded head, and the resto- 
ration of world-dominion for the short period of 
three and a half years. 



CHAPTER XII. 
The False Prophet. 

We have already shown, incidentally, that the 
false prophet is the head of Islam. His adherents 
call him affectionately "The Prophet." He is a 
rival of Jesus Christ. Like the Pope, he claims 
to be the vice-gerent of God. Mohammedans say, 
"Allah is one and Mohammed is His prophet." So 
they recognize him in the same capacity as Ro- 
manists recognize the Papa. The Papist says 
there is one God and "the Holy Father" is His 
Infallible Vicar. So in these two we have men 
who would rival the authority and dominion of 
the Son of God. 

Mohammed is, as we have proven, like the 
Pope, "a little horn." He arises in the region of 
the third beast, in one of the four heads of the 
leopard. But his title, "little horn," does not oc- 
cur in connection with the leopard. It is given 
in the eighth chapter of Daniel, in connection with 
the great he-goat. (Dan. 8:9.) 

The he-goat represents Alexander, just as did 
the leopard. But it is introduced here in order 
to trace out the second "little horn" and thus dif- 
ferentiate him from the "little horn" that came 
out of Rome. There are those who contend that 

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106 Who is the Beast? 

the Antichrist comes out of Arabia. That cannot 
be. Arabia has never been a Christian country. 
It is a Mohammedan land. It is the region of 
the false prophet. The Antichrist is a false 
Christ. He is the product of an apostasy in the 
church. He is called "the son of perdition." This 
title was applied to Judas, a preacher who sold 
his Lord. As the Pope is the Roman "little horn," 
so Mohammed is the Arabian "little horn." The 
one descends from the great nondescript, the oth- 
er from the he-goat. * 

The term "horn" is applied to a king, a ruler. 
Both the "little horns" have been prominent in 
government and yet each has headed a small king- 
dom, but a world religion. Both are autocratic. 
The Pope dominates Romanism, while Mohammed 
(the Sultan is now his successor) dominates Is- 
lam. Both hold to union of church and state. 
They each seek to govern the world as well as 
their religion. They cultivate both priest-craft 
and statecraft. They both demand that men shall 
bow to their authority, and that the world shall 
yield to their sovereignty. 

Neither of these religions has any moral tone. 
Men can live in their communions and practice ev- 
ery vice, living daily in all known sins. The one 
has its harems and the other its nunneries ; many 
of which are assignation houses. They are both 
exceedingly corrupt and terribly demoralizing. 

These autocratic world-bosses are alike in 



Who is the Beast? 107 

their claims and in their moral standards. Yet, 
being rivals, they have never had any fellowship. 
Each has sought to control the world, and has, 
therefore, looked upon the other as an enemy. 
But lo, in the end period, where our studies now 
lie, we find the Beast and the False Prophet in 
collusion. What has brought about this spirit c 
co-operation between these two age-long enemies ? 
One word answers — Autocracy! Their power is 
waning. Their thrones are at stake. The King 
of kings approaches. They fear Him. His tri- 
umph means their doom. To resist Him they 
unite. What power brings them together? What 
wizard effects the reconciliation ? This is the Ger- 
man Kaiser's job. In the beginning of the present 
great world holocaust the Sultan cast in his lot 
with Kaiser Wilhelm.* The Pope was more covert 
in his alignment, but there are many indications 
that he and the Kaiser have a secret understand- 
ing, a working agreement. We submit proofs in 
another chapter. 



* Remember, Germany has a future. Do not think that 
all is determined by present rulers, or conditions. 



CHAPTER XIII. 
Is the Beast the Antichrist? 

This question is often raised. We feel that 
the answer is not at all difficult. "The Beast" and 
"The Antichrist" are but two terms for one and 
the same character. The Antichrist is only 
named in the writings of John. So far as the 
New Testament is concerned, "the Beast" is men- 
tioned only by John. But this vile character oc- 
cupies too prominent a place to have a duplicate. 
Call him "The Beast," "The Antichrist," or "The 
Man of Sin" — it is immaterial. He is the same 
great enemy of God and truth, of heaven and holi- 
ness. 

But some may ask, How can the Pope be the 
Antichrist, since he does not deny the Father and 
the Son? We are well aware that St. John says, 
"Who is the liar, but he that denieth that Jesus 
is the Christ ? This is the antichrist, even he that 
denieth the Father and the Son." (I John 2:26.) 
To get the full significance of this passage, please 
observe — 

1. The apostle has just told us, "Even now 
are there many antichrists." (v. 18.) Then in 
the 22nd verse he describes these "many" anti- 
christs that were among them of whom he said 
"even now there are many." There are two ways 

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Who is the Beast? 109 

of denying the Father and the Son, one is that of 
the infidel, who says, "There is no God, there is 
no Christ. ,, The other method admits the exist- 
ence of both, but supplants them in the hearts and 
affections of men. This is the work of the anti- 
christ ; he is a supplanter of Christ. He puts him- 
self in the place of Christ, thus undermining and 
destroying the work of the world's Redeemer. 
The word "anti" means against; but it also means 
substitutionary. It is said (in Matthew 2:22) 
that "Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room 
of his father Herod. " Now the word rendered 
"room of" is "anti," which signifies that Arche- 
laus had taken the place of Herod his father. If 
the Pope takes the place of Christ in the church, 
in worship, in the hearts of men, "in the temple of 
God," then he is the Antichrist. 

The worst enemy of good money is the coun- 
terfeit dollar. So the worst enemy of the real 
Christ is the counterfeit Christ. If the Pope can 
put himself in the place of Jesus Christ, and can 
induce multitudes of people to look to him for 
salvation, then has he very effectively supplanted 
the true Christ among men. 

John wrote "even now are there many anti- 
christs." These many antichrists were the many 
deceivers that had gone forth into the world. They 
confessed not that Jesus Christ had come in the 
flesh. (II John 7.) He was not here referring 
to the great ultimate Antichrist. This great arch 



110 Who is the Beast? 

enemy had not yet come on the scene, but of 
course he had been foretold, and was expected. 
When we speak of him our reference is to "The 
Antichrist." But the spirit that should produce 
the Antichrist, the spirit that would supplant the 
Christ, that would deceive and mislead men, was 
already at work, and there were many adherents 
of this falsehood. Hence, we are not surprised to 
hear the apostle say, "even now are there many 
antichrists." But if one should insist, as many 
do, that the Antichrist must deny the existence 
of the Father and the Son, we reply: To deny 
the Father it is not necessary to deny His exist- 
ence. Jesus said: "If any man will come after 
me let him deny himself." Does he mean to say 
that a man should deny having an existence? Cer- 
tainly not. For one to deny himself, is to deny 
the passions, lusts, desires, and dominance of the 
self-life. Then observe, one who denies the Fa- 
ther need not deny His existence, but simply His 
authority, His control, His dominion over the life. 
That is exactly what the Pope does. He so thor- 
oughly usurps the place of the Father and the Son, 
that they are rejected and cannot control and 
guide the penitent's life. One's life becomes sub- 
ject to his priestly "father," rather than to his 
heavenly Father. A real papist, a thorough dev- 
otee of the priestcraft, has no place in his heart 
for God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit. 
Here is the fallacy, the curse and evil of Roman- 



Who is the Beast? Ill 

ism. It is a mere ritualistic system, and yet it 
fully usurps the affections of its devotee. You do 
not hear the papist pleading to Christ and prais- 
ing God, but you hear him praying to saints, "con- 
fessing to priests and glorifying "The Church." 
The papacy has developed a system that thorough- 
ly occupies the heart, and completely claims the 
affections of its adherents. Thus the Pope most 
effectually denies the Father and the Son by sup- 
planting the Godhead in the hearts of men. 

The title of "God" has been applied many times 
to the Pope. Alexander VI passed under the 
arch of triumph to his pontifical consecration be- 
neath the words, "Caesar was a man, Alexander 
is a God ;" to Leo X it was said by infatuated fol- 
lowers: "Thou art another God on earth." Not 
only have blinded devotees of Popery used such 
extravagant language concerning the papal head, 
but Pope Gregory II declared, "All the kings of 
the world reverence the Pope as a God on earth." 

Perhaps the reader may say, these extravagant 
and blasphemous claims were all made during the 
dark ages; the world has outgrown such blind- 
ness. One might think so. But stop a moment. 
When was the dogma of infallibility proclaimed? 
Was it not at the Vatican Council, September, 
1870, when Pious IX was Pope? Exactly. Let us 
give you a still later declaration that will show the 
Pope to be still obsessed with the blasphemous 
idea of his own greatness, which proclaims him 



112 Who is the Beast? 

unmistakably the man of sin, that is, the Anti- 
christ. Note this from Pius X, who was Pope 
just preceding the present incumbent, and who 
died but four years ago. Hear him, "The Pope is 
not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but 
he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under the veil 
of the flesh. Does the Pope speak? It is Jesus 
Christ who speaks. Does the Pope accord a fa- 
vor or pronounce an anathema ? It is Jesus Christ 
who pronounces the anathema or accords the fa- 
vor. So, when the Pope speaks we have no busi- 
ness to examine. We have only to obey." This 
was not in the heyday of the devil's millennium, 
the dark ages; but at a very recent date, in our 
own time, by a man who is scarcely more than 
cold in his grave, even by whom? By Pius X. This 
blasphemer demands more than God. Jehovah 
says, "Come, let us reason together." Not so 
with this twentieth century Antichrist. Accord- 
ing to him there is no occasion to examine, no 
reason can be used, no reply made ; when the in- 
fallible speaks there is nothing but obedience. If 
this is not denying, substituting, supplanting the 
Father and the Son, pray tell us what it is. 

The spirit manifest in this last quotation cor- 
roborates the spirit of the papacy of the past 
thousand years. Bellarmine on the authority of 
the councils (Book 2, Ch, 17) declares "All the 
names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture, 
implying His supremacy over the Church, are also 



Who is the Beast? 113 

attributed to the Pope." Christopher Marcellus in 
the fifth Lateran Council (1672, Vol. XIV, Col. 
109) says, "Thou art the shepherd, thou art the 
physician, thou art the director, thou art the hus- 
bandman ; finally, thou art another God on earth." 
We append the following quotation from book I, 
"On Authority and Obedience," Ch. 1, Vol. Ill, 
"Christ entrusted His office to the chief pontiff * 
* * but all power in heaven and in earth has been 
given to Christ ; * * * therefore the chief pontiff, 
who is His vicar, will have this power." 

"The Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as 
king of heaven, and earth, and purgatory." (Fer- 
raris, Vol. VI, P. 26). 

"The decision of the Pope and the decision of 
God constitutes one decision, just as the opinion 
of the Pope and his disciples the same. * * * 
Therefore no one can appeal from Pope to God, 
as no one can enter into the consistory of God 
without the mediation of the Pope, who is 
the key-bearer and the door-keeper of the 
consistory of eternal life; and as no one can ap- 
peal to himself, so no one can appeal from the Pope 
to God, because there is one decision and one court 
of God and the Pope." (Augustinus de Ancona). 

"All the faithful of Christ must believe that the 
Holy Apostolic See and the Roman pontiff pos- 
sesses the primacy over the whole world and 
that the Roman pontiff * * * is the 
true vicar of Christ, and the head of the 
whole church, the father and teacher of all Chris- 



114 Who is the Beast? 

tians, and that full power was given him in blessed 
Peter to rule, feed, and govern the universal 
Church of Jesus Christ our Lord." (Henry Ed- 
ward Manning, in "The Vatican Council and its 
Definitions," p. 214). . 

Many similar extracts might be made from Ro- 
man Catholic writers, councils, etc., but we for- 
bear. These are sufficient. These are samples 
taken largely at random extending through sev- 
eral centuries and coming down to within four 
years of the present writing. If the Pope is not 
the Antichrist, if these boastful and extravagant 
claims made for him do not mark him out as the 
supplanter of Jesus Christ, then we do not know 
the meaning of words. We see that he has actu- 
ally been called "Christ in the flesh,' ' "the Great 
Shepherd," "Our Lord God the Pope," and many 
kindred names. 

He is the rival of our Christ, the supplanter of 
our God, the enemy of our liberties, the oppressor 
of the human family, the seducer of souls, the 
chief enemy of true Christianity, the worst foe of 
vital godliness with which the human family is, 
or ever has been, afflicted. Remember that Dan- 
iel says of the little horn, "His look was more 
stout than his fellows," and "that he speaketh 
great swelling words against the Most High." 
Furthermore, "He maketh war with the saints, 
and prevaileth against them, until the coming of 
the Ancient of days." Beware of the little horn, 
the great blasphemer, The Beast. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

The Man of Sin. 

Here we have, not another character but anoth- 
er title for the same character. Our Lord has 
many names. He is "Jesus," which means Sav- 
iour; He is "Lord," which means Master; He is 
"Christ," which means the Anointed; He is 
"King," which means ruler; He is "The Son of 
God," which proves His Divinity; He is the "Son 
of man," which indicates His identity with mor- 
tals. 

Satan also has many titles. He is called, "The 
Devil ;" he is labeled "the serpent ;" "the dragon ;" 
"the deceiver," "Apollyon;" and "Beelzebub." 
These and other like titles apply to the king of the 
infernal regions. 

In like manner "The Beast" wears sundry ti- 
tles. Many names are given him also in the di- 
rectory of truth. "The Beast" shows his vicious, 
devouring, destructive character ; the "little horn" 
points him out under inspired symbol as a king 
over a small territory. It also, like "The Beast," 
shows his identity with the beastly line of govern- 
ments that cover the time of the Jewish disper- 
sion. This is the day of Israel's national rejec- 
tion, and is scripturally labelled, "The times of the 
Gentiles." 

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116 Who is the Beast? 

The official organ of Pius IX (Mar. 18, 1871) de- 
clared, "The Pope is supreme judge of the law of 
the land. He is the vice-gerent of Christ, * * * 
the King of kings and Lord of lords." If this is 
not the "Man of Sin," showing himself off as God, 
pray tell us what marks would be required for 
identification ? 

He is also called "The Man of Sin," indicating 
that while he is but a man, all lines of sin con- 
verge in him and flourish under his rule and di- 
rection. This, as the other titles we have exam- 
ined, is an official appellation. It does not refer 
to any one Pope as an individual, or to the moral 
character of any one. As in the case of the lion, 
there were a number of kings and not simply Neb- 
uchadnezzar. Under this symbol there were 
other kings involved. As in Diarius who was pre- 
figured by the bear, but Cyrus and others also were 
thus symbolized. Then there was also the leop- 
ard, which represented Alexander and still 
other rulers who succeeded to his dominions. 
So, in "The Man of Sin," the whole official head- 
ship of the system is involved, The Popes, as a 
rule, have been notoriously corrupt, bad men. 
They have been noted for immorality and licen- 
tiousness. Let him who doubts, read De Corme- 
nin's "History of the Popes." Taken as a whole, 
there have been no more debauched men in his- 
tory. But however much any individual Pope 
might seek to be an honest, conscientious and up- 



Who is the Beast? 117 

right man, still, as the head of this system, he is 
"The Man of Sin." Romanism has no moral 
standard. A man can be born, live, and die 
in full fellowship with that which is called the 
Roman Catholic Church and practice every vice 
known to the catalogue, every sin known to man, 
and die in good fellowship and be buried in "holy 
ground.'" When this sinner dies, the priest puts 
him in purgatory, and uses him to graft on the 
living. Murder, theft, debauchery and all sin is 
officially tolerated. But if an angel from heaven 
should deny the authority of the Pope, and refuse 
to confess to the priest and to meet the financial 
demands of the system, he would be very promptly 
excommunicated and consigned to endless burn- 
ings. So, he who is the head of this system is by 
divine inspiration labelled, "The Man of Sin." 

Since the Pope claims both temporal and spirit- 
ual dominion, he has titles that apply in both 
realms. As "the little horn , " he is presented to 
us as a king, or temporal ruler. As the "Man of 
Sin," he is set before us in his spiritual headship. 
In the first capacity he is an oppressor; in the sec- 
ond, he is a perverter of moral and spiritual life. 
So he curses humanity for both this world and the 
world to come. 

As "The Man of Sin" he sits in the temple of 
God, that is, he exercises spiritual leadership, oc- 
cupies official ecclesiastical relationship to God's 
work. What is his attitude in the temple of God ? 



118 Who is the Beast? 

It is that of vice-gerency. He assumes to repre- 
sent the Most High, he occupies the place of God, 
our Father in heaven. Accordingly he assumes 
the title, "The Holy Father." But the Bible does 
not recognize his claim, instead, it labels him, as 
we have seen, "The Man of Sin."' 

The Son of Perdition. 

This appellation is used in one other place in 
Scripture. It is in the case of Judas. He was a 
preacher, was listed among the apostles, ranked 
as a representative of Christ. But he was selfish, 
grasping, unclean. Our Lord, who knew all men, 
gave him the title that we are now considering. 
In the divine eyes he was "The Son of Perdition." 
When Paul applies this name to the coming repre- 
sentative of hell he must have had Judas in mind. 
The spirit of the apostate disciple is plainly man- 
ifest in the Pope. Like Judas, he is haughty, 
overbearing, selfish; he is grasping, self-centered, 
avaricious. All readers of history are familiar 
with TetzePs sale of indulgences, which so arous- 
ed the soul of Luther, that it enabled him to stir 
all Europe, bringing about the reformation. * 

Confirmatory of what has been said we recom- 
mend a study of the moral condition of the papal 
world. Look at Italy, Spain, Portugal, and all 

*(He who would care to investigate this subject more 
fully, is referred to "Uncle Sam or the Pope, Which?" In 
this book the author, L. L. Pickett, gives conclusive proof 
that the Pope is "The Man of Sin," that this title can- 
not apply elsewhere. 



Who is the Beast? 119 

other Papal countries. It will be seen that igno- 
rance, Sabbath desecration, superstition and im- 
purity abound. In some Romish countries, as, for 
instance, Austria, the Philippines, Ecuador and 
sundry other countries where the priests abound, 
and Protestantism is unknown, illegitimacy is of- 
ten found to be from thirty to fifty per cent. In- 
deed, in certain thoroughly papal regions, the ille- 
gitimate birth-rate has been known to reach 
seventy-five per cent. This is attributable 
largely to the moral perversion the sys- 
tem produces, and furthermore to the avari- 
ciousness of the priests, who alone have the legal 
right to perform the marriage ceremony, and 
who make such exorbitant charges that the poor 
people cannot meet the demand. Accordingly, 
they simply live together unmarried. Their sin 
lies at the door of the priestly grafters, who, Ju- 
das-like, sell their Lord and the souls of their vic- 
tims for silver and gold. No wonder the word of 
God brands him who is the head of this debauch- 
ing, money-loving iniquity, as "The Man of Sin/' 
"The Son of Perdition." 

Henceforth, let no one make the mistake of call- 
ing the Pope "His Holiness." 

Some have argued that the Antichrist is to be a 
great coming Jew. This cannot be. Judaism is for 
the present shelved. This entire age, till the return 
of our Lord, is "The times of the Gentiles." Nor 
will that period end till the Image is smashed, and 



120 Who is the Beast? 

The Beast cast alive, with the false prophet, into 
the lake of fire. (Rev. 19). This is not the age 
of the Jew; he is repudiated, his scepter and 
throne are lost; he is trampled beneath Gentile 
feet. The dominion of the world remains with 
the Gentiles until it passes to David's greater Son. 
No Jew will ever be a great and effective ruler, a 
world-dominating governmental head, in this dis- 
pensation. The crown has departed from Israel, 
the throne is lost to the Jew, the scepter has pass- 
ed from the sons of Jacob. The temple of God in 
this dispensation is not of the Jew, nor is it to be 
found in Jerusalem. It is, instead, the Church. 
In this temple of God sits "the Son of perdition/' 
occupying the center of the stage, and requiring 
all men to kneel before him. It is the Pope's offi- 
cial title and prerogative, as an ecclesiastic, to 
which Paul refers when he places him before us in 
the capacity of "The Man of Sin." (2 Thess. 2: 
1-12). 

The Popes and priests of Rome are not allowed 
to marry, yet they claim Peter as their first Pope, 
and we remember that he had a mother-in-law, 
whom the Master healed of fever. Are present- 
day popes and priests better than Peter, that they 
do not marry, or are they so much worse that they 
are not allowed to have a wife ? A decent woman 
could undoubtedly secure a divorce from the av- 
erage priest on grounds of conjugal infidelity. 



CHAPTTR XV. 
What of Babylon? 

* 'Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of 
harlots (margin "fornications") and abominations 
of the earth." (Rev. 17:5). 

The question is very natural, Who, or what, is 
this Babylon? Does it refer to the ancient city 
of this name ? Or is it the old city of Babylon re- 
built? Or is it the Babylonian empire to be re- 
vived and re-established? According to many of 
our futurist brethren, the ancient city is to be 
again built, and flourish. Such is the teaching of 
Seiss, Gray, Scofield and sundry other writers. 
Among them are some from whom to differ is 
embarrassing indeed. Their names carry weight, 
and the very fact that they take such a position 
is more conclusive than their arguments. But 
we believe them utterly wrong, and shall attempt 
to show that their position is without Scriptural 
warrant. The word of God is the only arbiter of 
such controversy. Its teachings are plain, as it 
seems to the writer. These men have been led 
to this unscriptural position by their effort to find 
the Antichrist apart from popery. They are try- 
ing to screen the Pope, to find the Antichrist out- 
side the Vatican. They think that he will be 

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122 Who is the Beast? 

simply a beastly, militaristic king, that shall arise 
somewhere in Europe. Rejecting the argument 
that the Pope is the Antichrist, they must likewise 
find a Babylon somewhere beside the Romish 
Church. If the Pope is the Antichrist, then it 
must be of necessity that the Romish Church is 
Babylon. Granted that the Pope is antichrist, it 
follows logically that Babylon is his "Mother of 
Harlots/' and his handmaiden and co-partner in 
sin. If the Antichrist has not yet come, neither 
has Babylon. But if the Antichrist has been here 
for centuries, so has Babylon. The two arise and 
continue to exist coetaneously. If our contention 
is correct, if "The Man of Sin" is here, if The 
Beast has bled and cursed the world for centuries, 
then it follows, as day follows night, that the 
"Mother of Harlots" has been befouling the world 
with her filthy brood for a like period. We will 
undertake to show and establish by a number of 
well-founded reasons and lines of proof that the 
old city of Babylon need not, nay, cannot, be re- 
built. The prophecy does not demand its rebuild- 
ing; and scripture emphatically asserts that it 
shall never more exist. 

1. The Beast is not a literal beast, but a man ; 
and in final manifestation a demon-man. Since 
The Beast is a figurative expression, not a literal 
four-legged animal, but a symbol, so, by parity of 
reasoning, Babylon must be a symbolic city. 
Nebuchadnezzar was not a lion, though presented 



Who is the Beast? 123 

symbolically as one, a symbol. Darius was not a 
bear, though symbolically set before us as one. 
Alexander was not a leopard, neither was Csesar 
a great nondescript animal; but his personality 
and kingship were thus symbolized. So all these 
were presented in a symbolic way. Now why 
should symbolism be discarded, and Babylon, the 
handmaiden of The Beast, be presented literally? 
It would disjoint a series of symbols, to thrust in 
the midst of them a rebuilt Babylon. So Babylon, 
as well as The Beast, is a figurative or symbolical 
term. 

2. The gap is too great between the literal 
Babylon, the head of the old Chaldean empire, 
and the moral, or rather immoral, institution pre- 
sented to our view in the apocalyptic vision. The 
city of Babylon, the seat of empire in the days of 
Nebuchadnezzar, was at the head of the great 
image ; this mysterious Babylon is at its feet. 
Literal Babylon contained the palace of the lion- 
king, the first of the symbolic beasts; this mys- 
terious, harlot-Babylon is presented to us in the 
last manifestation of the fourth beast, the great 
nondescript. 

Ancient Babylon was the seat of empire of the 
lion, the first of the beasts, Rome is the seat of 
government in the kingdom of the fourth beast, 
who is perpetuated in the little horn. It is here, 
in the seven-hilled city, that the mother of harlots 
reigns. (Rev. 17:9, 10). 



124 Who is the Beast? 

3. This unholy character is in the same con- 
nection called "a woman" (vers. 4, 5) "the wo- 
man" (vers. 6, 18). In the last reference both 
terms, "woman" and "city," are used. This proves 
conclusively that there is no reference to a literal 
Babylon to be rebuilt, for the terms are used in 
that figurative sense that allows them to be in- 
terchanged. A woman is not a city, a city is not 
a woman; but an institution may be symbolized 
on one side by a city in its commercial and busi- 
ness life, and on the other side by a woman, in its 
moral life, and as indicating its fecundity. So it 
is in the spiritual realm this institution is called 
a woman and in its temporal dominion it is called 
a city, a great city, even Babylon. Being an in- 
stitution so symbolized, it cannot possibly be the 
ancient city of Babylon rebuilt. 

4. The word "Babylon" in the text is preced- 
ed by the word "mystery," and this is followed by 
a comma. Behold the wording: "Mystery, Baby- 
lon the Great, The Mother of Harlots and Abom- 
inations" It is impossible that a literal city 
should be a literal "mother," from which fact we 
know that the term is used here figuratively. But 
if the "mother" here is not literal, neither is the 
city. A figurative city is presented as a figura- 
tive mother. We are notified in advance that the 
whole matter is a "mystery." The word mys- 
tery prepares us for a spiritual interpretation of 
the passage. It is as though the writer had said, 



Who is the Beast? 125 

"In a spiritual and mysterious sense we have be- 
fore us a harlot city, Babylon the Great." This 
harlot mother produces a brood of harlots, of 
abominations ; an unclean, unholy brood it is. 

5. Furthermore, the word "mystery" occurs 
in connection with "The Man of Sin." In speak- 
ing of this vile usurper of God's throne prior to 
his development, the apostle says, "the mystery of 
iniquity doth already work." (2 Thess. 2:7). 
Again speaking of the church, the apostle Paul 
says : "We are members of his body, of his flesh, 
and of his bones. For this cause shall a man 
leave his father and mother and shall be joined 
unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning 
Christ and the Church." (Eph. 5 :30-32) . In each 
case, the development of "The Man of Sin" and of 
the apocalyptic Babylon, we have the word "mys- 
tery" which is also used, as we have seen, in the 
case of the union between Christ and His Church. 
The conclusion seems inevitable that as Christ and 
His Church are spiritually one, and in mystery, so 
the Beast and the harlot mother are one in mys- 
tery. 

6. The city of Bfabylon was located, we be- 
lieve, in the plains of Shinar. 

From a writer in the London Times we quote 
as to the low, flat land upon which Babylon was 
built : 

"Nebuchadnezzar, speaking in the bricks of 



126 Who is the Beast? 

a protective wall he built in the Euphrates, says : 
— 'I raised its foundation on the depth of the 
water, its top I exalted like the wooded moun- 
tains.' He was familiar, it seems, with the exist- 
ence of mountains. And to my mind this is the 
most wonderful thing about Babylon, that these 
kings, with all the wealth and resources they could 
command, should have chosen to live in their fire- 
pit by the Euphrates. For thousands of years 
the greatest sovereigns of the earth selected of 
choice the climate of Hell." 

For Babylon to be rebuilt literally on her old 
site would not in any sense fulfill the description 
given to John. We read: "The seven heads are 
seven mountains on which the woman sitteth." 
(Rev. 17 :9) . Where is the seven-hilled city? Not 
on the plains of Shinar, not in the low, sandy re- 
gions of the Euphrates, or the Tigris, but far 
away to the west on the banks of the Tiber. 
Here on the seven hills may be found the Eternal 
City, the mistress of the ancient world, Rome. 
Rome was and is known as the seven-hilled city. 
Sitting on these seven mountains the Mother of 
Harlots spreads forth her wand of superstition 
and spiritual empire. Here is the seat of The 
Beast. In union they are one, even as man and 
wife. Here is the kingdom of the little horn, the 
place of his residence, the seat of his empire. 
Here also reigned in his day the fourth beast, 
whose heir and successor the little horn was and 
is. 



Who is the Beast? 127 

7. This harlot is said to be "that great city 
which reigneth over the kings of the earth." 
(Rev. 17:18). This is not a description of an 
ancient city that reigned in the long ago, that 
perished and passed in by-gone centuries. Rath- 
er, it describes the case in the present tense, and 
specifically declares that the harlot is the great 
city that "reigneth/ and not the one that once 
reigned, over the kings of the earth. At the time 
in which John wrote the book of Revelation, Rome 
was dominating the whole earth. The identifica- 
tion, therefore, could not be more complete had 
the interpreter said the harlot mother is the city 
of Rome. Literal Babylon was not then reigning 
over the kings of the earth. That city had at the 
time of the writing no existence, and no writer 
could have truthfully said that the city of Babylon 
"reigneth" over the nations and kings of the earth. 
But Rome so reigned ; and Rome is, therefore, the 
city that is presented before us in mystery as 
Babylon. The woman, we remember, simply oc- 
cupies her place on the seven hills ; the city is her 
residence, and the seat of her power. But the 
term Rome is applied to the city, also to the insti- 
tution known as the Roman church. 

8. The city of Babylon will never be rebuilt. 
This is proven conclusively by the declarations of 
the prophets. In Isaiah we read (13:19-22), 
"Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of 
the Chaldee's excellency, shall be as when God 



128 Who is the Beast? 

overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." These cities 
were destroyed by fire, the very ground upon 
which they had stoood was consumed, and there 
may be seen to this day the waters of the Dead 
Sea. They passed utterly from the earth, they 
sank into oblivion. The fires of God's judgment 
and wrath consumed the houses, the people, and 
the last vestige of these wicked cities. The over- 
throw of Babylon is presented as though it were 
as absolute as that of the licentious cities that 
perished in the days of Lot. But God foresaw 
the contentions of men. He was aware that our 
futurist friends would attempt to foreshadow the 
rebuilding of the doomed city. Accordingly He 
said of Babylon through Jeremiah, "It shall never 
be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from gen- 
eration to generation." He goes on to declare that 
even the wandering Arab shall not so much as 
"pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds 
make their fold there." He consigns it to the 
"wild beasts," to the "owls" and "satyrs." Isaiah 
13:1 ; 17-22; see also Jer. 51; 1, 2, 28-64). 

What more need be said. Jeremiah's testimony 
and that of Isaiah agree perfectly. If these proph- 
ets bring us the word of God, there is no room for 
further question or controversy. "Babylon shall 
become heaps, a dwelling-place of dragons, an as- 
tonishment and an hissing, without an inhab- 
itant." After many other like expressions the 
weeping prophet declares, "Thus sayeth the Lord 



Who is the Beast? 129 

of Host's, the broad walls of Babylon shall be ut- 
terly broken, her high gates shall be burned with 
fire. * * * Then shalt thou say, Lord, Thou 
hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that 
none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, 
but that IT SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER." Is not 
this the word of God? Is it not authoritative? 
Why then should good men devise a theory that 
necessitates the falsifying of such plain declara- 
tions of Holy Writ? . 

The Babylon of St. John is in mystery, is a spir- 
itual Babylon. She was in existence in the days 
of the apostles. But the ancient city of Babylon 
had already served its day and passed forever 
from the earth. He who insists that the old city 
of the Babylonian monarchs shall be rebuilt con- 
tradicts the plain statement of Scripture, contra- 
venes the spiritual lesson under consideration, and 
camouflages the corruption and deceptions of the 
vicious and hell-serving mother of harlots. 

9. This spiritual Babylon continues uninter- 
ruptedly from John's day, from the Patmos vis- 
ion, till the return of our Lord. She continues to 
bring forth her slimy brood, to commit fornica- 
tion with the kings of the earth, and to pollute the 
fountains of spiritual life for the world through- 
out many centuries. It is in connection with the 
glorious advent of the King eternal that we see 
the overthrow of this great harlot Babylon. The 
cry goes up, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, 



130 Who is the Beast? 

and is become the habitation of devils and the 
hold on every foul spirit, and a cage of every un- 
clean and hateful bird." Then God calls for His 
people to forsake the sinking hulk. "I heard an- 
other voice from heaven saying, Come out of her 
my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, 
and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Rev. 18 : 
2, 4) . This shows us that although the great city 
is corrupt, vicious, and hellish in spirit; yet God 
has some people in her. There was a Noah in the 
antediluvian world, a Lot existed in Sodom ; and 
lo, we find some of God's chosen in the great har- 
lot city. She certainly is not to be credited with 
their salvation. Rome does not beget holy char- 
acter. But hungry hearts even amidst her cor- 
ruptions and spiritual rubbish some times find 
God, because their hearts hunger after Him. But 
the day of her judgment draweth nigh. The time 
of her overthrow approacheth. The call rings 
loud and clear, "Come out of her my people" — and 
they come. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

SOME TRAITS OF THE HARLOT BABYLON. 

She has many noticeable features, traits or ear- 
marks. 

1. She has a local residence — she sitteth on 
seven mountains. (Rev. 17:9). 

2. Yet she is not confined to Rome, the place 
of the seven hills, but she is well-nigh ubiquitous. 
It is said "she sitteth on many waters," (17:1), 
and these waters are declared to be multitudes, 
peoples, nations, and tongues. (17:15). Her 
power extends from the city of her residence 
throughout the earth, over a vast multitude of hu- 
man beings. She is like unto the wanton widows 
described by Paul, who "learned to be idle, wan- 
dering about from house to house; and not only 
idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking 
things they ought not." (1 Tim. 5:11-13). 

She may be compared to the harlot described by 
Solomon, whom he calls the "strange woman." 
Her lips "drop as a honey comb and her mouth is 
smoother than oil ; but her end is bitter as worm- 
wood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go 
down to death ; her steps take hold on hell." (Prov. 
5:3-5). So it is with the harlot of the Apocalypse, 
death and hell are in her steps, a fearful doom 
awaits her and those who partake of her sins. 

3. This foul character (figuratively a woman) 

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132 Who is the Beast? 

is noted for her licentiousness. She is called "the 
great whore." (Rev. 17:1). "the mother of har- 
lots" (v. 5), "this great city" (17:18 and 18:10) ; 
she is also called "the woman," thus saving us 
from confusing her identity with the old rebuilt 
city of Babylon. She is literally a harlot church, 
her name and location determined by the great 
city (Rome) which then and since has ruled over 
the kings of the earth. Thus Rome as a city de- 
termines the location and the name, while the 
character described is best known as a harlot, a 
mother of abominations, because of the spiritual 
perversity and corruption of the institution. 

4. She is a merchant, dealing in "gold, silver 
and precious stones, pearls and fine linen, thyne- 
wood, vessels of many kinds, odors, ointments, 
frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, beasts, 
sheep, horses, chariots, slaves and souls of men." 
(Rev. 18:11-15). 

Others have traded in the bodies of men ; they 
have bought and sold slaves, but who before the 
rise of Rome's purgatorial grafters were ever able 
to ply a shameless trade in the souls of men? Pur- 
gatory is a priestly invention for purposes of 
graft. Rome's priests have exceeded the world; 
they have surpassed earth's most avaricious mon- 
ey grabbers. They begin grafting on the babies 
when they are born, charging to baptize them; 
they keep up this graft throughout life and, at 
death, charge for a place in their graveyard, to 



Who is the Beast? 133 

which they have given the euphonious title, "holy 
ground." Not satisfied, they push their graft be- 
yond the grave, follow their victims to the land of 
shades, scorch them in the fires of purgatory, forc- 
ing widows and friends, out of pity for the suffer- 
ing loved ones to furnish the funds for the graft- 
ers to pull the souls out of purgatory. It seems 
to this writer that these robbers of the living over 
the souls of the dead should be put in the peniten- 
tiary on the charge of obtaining money under false 
pretense. 

Other robbers cease their exactions at the grave, 
but these pass beyond its boundaries. For shame ! 

5. This harlot commits fornication with the 
kings of the earth (Rev. 18:9). What human 
power has ever so perfectly filled this description 
as the harlot church? Has she not been an ever- 
lasting meddler with governments, with the kings 
and rulers of nations ? Does she not mix in with 
politics as no other political force ? Does she not 
seek to ensconce her political tools in office every- 
where? Is she not noted for sucking the public 
pap? Are not her hands endlessly stuck in the 
treasuries of states and nations? Does she not 
keep her representatives at the courts of the 
world ? Is she not busy Romanizing the nations, 
the governments, the armies the navies, the chap- 
laincies, the diplomatic service, the courts, the po- 
lice, the press, the schools, the public opinion and 
life of every civilized nation? Do not the poli- 



134 Who is the Beast? 

ticians kowtow to her priests and cardinals ? Do 
they not seek her influence and wait upon her bid- 
ding? Beyond doubt the charge holds true to 
our own day. The kings of the earth have com- 
mitted fornication with her. She has great rich- 
es, marvelous wealth, uncounted resources, a 
thorough organization, the following of her dupes 
and the tricky politicians. Yet amid all her un- 
mitigated meddling with the affairs of nations she 
has the brazen face to stand before the world as 
the true and only representative of the Galilean 
Prophet, the lowly Nazarene, who had not where 
to lay His head. (Rev. 18:15-19; Matt. 8:20). 

Our futurist brethren think they have found the 
shadow of a coming beast ; but their scheme pro- 
duces no bride for the beast ; hence, no offspring. 
Thus they utterly fail to fill in the full outline. 
The Beast and the Mother of Harlots appear in 
close fellowship, as bridegroom and bride — even 
as Christ and His bride, they are one. (Heb. 2 :11) . 
"Christ is a mystery; the union between humanity 
and Deity in one person, is mysterious ; the Church 
as the bride of Christ, is a mystery ; the relation 
between them is a mystery. 

Lo, here comes Beelzebub, the Prince of Dark- 
ness, hater of Christ ; hater of the Church ; hater 
of God's Children. He devises a counterfeit Christ, 
a counterfeit church, and counterfeit Christians. 
His counterfeit Christ is a substitute for the Son 
of God, and therefore is the Antichrist. His coun- 
terfeit church is a ritualistic, ecclesiaistical substi- 



Who is the Beast? 135 

tute for a spiritual, regenerated, sanctified church. 
This false fold of the "Babylon" of Revelation, 
is the mother of harlots. 

Here we have the sex idea in the true church, 
exemplied in the union between Christ and His 
Church; also exemplified in the union between 
Antichrist and his church. The offspring of 
Christ is holy; the offspring of the beast is un- 
holy; his proper label therefore is, "The man of 
Sin." The work of Christ in the world is enno- 
bling, uplifting, refining, purifying, enlightening. 
The spiritual effect of the union between the beast 
and his bride, is sin, superstition, ignorance, 
blindness, idolatry, lust, immorality; the political 
effect is national weakness, personal degradation, 
lowness of moral tone, shame, and destruction 
forever. (2 Thess. 2:8-12). 

Where is the bride of the beast, the harlot 
mother? She sits on the seven hills and, while 
decked out in "gold and purple and scarlet," she 
does the bidding of her liege lord, she commits 
fornication with the kings of the earth, thus un- 
dermining decent government and national uplift. 
This beastly bridegroom and his harlot bride have 
cursed and polluted the earth for long centuries, 
they are both introduced with the word, "Mys- 
tery," thus implying the spiritual effect produced 
by their relation and union. It also shows that as 
there is mystery between Christ and His people, 
so likewise exists the mysterious union between 
the Antichrist and the Harlot Mother. 



CHAPTER XVII. 
A Camouflage. 

Much harm is done to the truth by the futurist 
dogma. Popery and priestcraft have sown the 
earth with the dragon teeth of ignorance and su- 
perstition. Romanism has cursed, bled and blighted 
the world for a devil's millennium. She has handi- 
capped human progress and prevented racial up- 
lift and national strength and development. She 
has hardened the hearts of men, has shut out the 
light of salvation, has rendered men impervious 
to the truth. An evangelist friend recently wrote 
to the author of these lines, "I am up against a 
stone w r all ; this is the hardest field I have labored 
in ; the Gospel seems to produce no results." The 
reply was, "The sad fact is, the place in which you 
are preaching is no exception ; wherever Roman- 
ism gets a hold on the hearts of men, there is 
moral hardness and spiritual deadness; look at 
Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Mexico, all the 
South American States, the islands of the sea ana 
the cities of our own country. Everywhere that 
priestcraft finds footing there abound Sabbath 
desecration, the liquor traffic, profanity, moral 
perversity, and spiritual dearth. It is easier to 
have revivals, to bring sinners to a knowledge of 

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Who is the Beast? 137 

Christ, in China, in Japan, in Korea, and pre-em- 
inently so in India, than in any country where 
the papacy is a vital factor, and an accepted re- 
ligion. Romanism has beheaded men, disembow- 
eled them, stretched them upon the rack, hewn 
them to pieces, roasted them to death in hot ovens, 
or burned them at the stake, not simply by thou- 
sands, but literally by millions. She has burned 
Bibles, prevented general education, encouraged 
idolatry, hardened men in sin, polluted woman- 
hood and in ten thousand ways prevented the 
knowledge of Christ from reaching the hearts of 
humanity. Her influence for evil has been greater 
than Paganism; her opposition to spiritual free- 
dom, to religious experience and human uplift 
has been more destructive than any other sin- 
gle evil with which vital Godliness has had to 
contend. Romanism is the Pharisaism of Chris- 
tendom, her spirit is, "I am holier than thou ;" her 
effect is moral degeneracy and spiritual perversi- 
ty; national poverty and racial degeneration are 
natural results. This cruel, destructive agency 
of evil, this enemy of Cod and man, this moral 
Upas tree, has been exuding its poisonous effluvia 
over the nations of the earth for more than a 
thousand years. She is still busy. Her moral ef- 
fects are still to be seen on every hand. Her spir- 
itual corruption is manifest. Her deluded victims 
bowing down to their idols, counting their beads, 
wearing their scapulars and mumbling their inco- 



138 Who is the Beast? 

herent paternosters and Ave Marias, without any 
proper conception of true spiritual life and holi- 
ness are numbered by millions. These victims of 
delusion pray to dead saints, and, worse still, even 
to their images, and confess the secret sins of 
their life, and uncover the very longing and de- 
sires of their hearts to men, many of whom are 
known to be lustful and unclean. The very foun- 
tains of spiritual life are corrupted until a ritual- 
istic formula, a mere human ecclesiasticism, sup- 
plants the Church of God in the affections of men, 
and, deluding its victims, allows their sins to go 
unrepented and drops their immortal souls into a 
devil's hell for a sad awakening. She has de- 
bauched manhood, robbed her priests of the sanc- 
tity and joy of a pure home life. She has shut 
women up in her nunneries, excluded them from 
the joys of home, snared them to do the bidding 
of her bachelor priests, often making of her 
cloistered nunneries mere assignation houses. 
No wonder the Book has labeled her, "The mother 
of harlots and abominations of the earth." 

Now this cruel, heart-corroding, home-wreck- 
ing, religion-destroying power, presided over by 
"the man of sin" is allowed to hamper the work 
of God, wreck spirituality, damn the souls of men 
and, while carrying on this awful work, to sail un- 
der the colors of "The Holy, Apostolic, Roman 
Catholic Church." If it is holy may heaven de- 
liver us from holiness; if it is the Church, may 



Who is the Beast? 139 

the devil take the church, may God deliver us 
from it. 

While this deadly Upas tree has been poisoning 
the atmosphere of the earth for more than a thou- 
sand years, our futurist brethren think the Anti- 
christ has not come. They have their spy glasses 
to their faces, and are looking into the dim future 
for the arising of the Antichrist. My brethren, 
throw away your glasses, the enemy is here, the 
minions of the foe surround you. Hell is moving 
now, the armies of darkness are already organ- 
ized and pressing the battle against Christ and 
His salvation. The tenets of futurism but camou- 
flage the operations of the beastly armies. While 
they are carrying on their delusive, deceptive, and 
infernal work, the seers are busily spying into 
the distant future. Sad! The beastly doings of 
the "Son of perdition/' are reaping a harvest of 
death. Hell is filling with those who should be 
saved, would be saved, if the truth were fully 
preached; if the camouflage were torn from the 
ranks of the enemy, then might the legions of God 
move forward with the banners of truth and light 
to victory here, and to the crowning of the vic- 
tors hereafter. 

We have shown that as the conflict deepens a 
yet mightier leader will arise to direct the forces 
of Hell's army, a far greater chieftain will encum- 
ber the throne of the beast. But it will be the 
same throne, the same scepter, the same crown, 



140 Who is the Beast? 

the same army. It will be animated by the same 
spirit that has deluded the world for centuries, 
and will curse the v/orld hy the same falsehood 
that has hampered the spread of truth in the past. 
The fight has raged for centuries, the culmination 
of the conflict draweth nigh. The last great battle 
will soon be fought. Tlie earth will be covered 
with darkness, the groans of the dying will be 
heard around the world. The second great beast 
(of Revelation Thirteen), arising from the pit 
will lead the embattled hosts of the enemy in the 
conflict against the Captain of our salvation. 
Even now the fight is on. Throw away your spy- 
glasses. Face the foe. Our King approaches. 
Rally, ye soldiers of the Cross ! Charge ! 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

The Three Spirits Like Frogs. 

(Rev. 16:13, 14). 

In the Apocalypse are many strange and mar- 
velous pictures. Some of them are very difficult 
of exposition — hard to understand. That is true 
of the case before us. It is indeed a difficult 
scripture. However, we feel that there is some 
light before us. We read: "I saw three unclean 
spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the 
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and 
out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are 
the spirits of devils (Greek, demons) working 
miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the 
earth and of the whole world, to gather them to 
the battle of that great day of God Almighty." 

It behooves us to be modest. No one can be 
dogmatic in dealing with this or any kindred pas- 
sage. But we believe that there are certain fea- 
tures of this text that are sufficiently plain to be 
understood, susceptible of sensible interpretation, 
even though other points may remain obscure. 
Let us then notice the features that are manifest. 

1. The lesson is both figurative and symbol- 
ical. The prophet did not see "frogs," but rather 
"spirits like frogs." Frogs were sent upon Egypt 
as a plague. (Ex. 8:1-14). These were literal 

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142 Who is the Beast? 

frogs, they constituted a very offensive plague. 
They hopped over the threshold into the beds, 
the meal barrel, the kneading-tray ; on the tables, 
into the vegetable dishes, to the coffee cups, and 
bread baskets, and dinner plates; they not only 
filled the houses, but the yards, the wells, the 
streams. They were slimy, filthy, and terribly 
offensive. But the spirits before us are not frogs, 
though they resemble them. 

2. They are "unclean." There are many 
kinds of spirits. Some are good, holy, helpful. 
Some are corrupt, injurious, hurtful. Saint John 
bids us "try the spirits whether they be of God." 
(1 John 4:1). There is "the spirit of man," also 
the spirit of the beast; the spirit of holiness, of 
faith, of consecration. Besides this we have the 
Holy Spirit, "The Spirit of Christ," and the 
"Seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the 
earth." (Rev. 5:8). But the text brings before 
us, "three unclean spirits." They are foul and 
they do a satanic work. There is nothing good, 
noble, or uplifting in these spirits. Their influ- 
ence cannot be other than hurtful. 

3. Not only are these spirits unclean, but 
they are the spirits of demons. They are not of 
God, nor even of man, but their very being is 
devilish ; their character is fiendish ; their kinship 
is to Satan. They are hellish in nature, and nec- 
essarily of infernal influence. Who could expect 
any good from any such spirits as these? They 



Who is the Beast? 143 

hate God ; for their essential nature is that of en- 
mity to Him, and to His holy character. They 
also hate man, because he is the object of God's 
love. Since God has given His only-begotten Son 
for man's redemption, these demons are busily en- 
gaged in seeking to frustrate God's redemptive 
purpose. They are a unit in opposition to God 
and all such work as He seeks to do. 

4. They have a similar origin. They come 
forth out of the mouth of the trinity of evil ; that 
is out of the mouth of the dragon, the mouth of 
the beast, the mouth of the false prophet — and 
these make' up an infernal trinity. God is a 
tri-unity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ; man is a 
tri-unity, body, soul and spirit; the worlds with 
which we have to do are a trinity, heaven, earth 
and hell. Now here come before us a trinity of 
unclean spirits out of the mouth of hell's trinity — 
the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. 

5. Now what is this hell's trinity, which 
pours forth from its very inner being these un- 
clean spirits? The dragon is clearly defined; he 
is none other than the devil. He is called, "Sa- 
tan, which deceiveth the whole world." (Rev. 12 : 
9). Also (20:1). He is the generalissimo of all 
the forces antagonistic to God. He is the chief 
enemy of everything good, of all that is holy. 

Who is the beast? Have we not sufficiently 
answered this question ? Is he not manifestly the 
successor to the old Roman nondescript? Has he 



144 Who is the Beast? 

not lived and perpetuated his work through the 
centuries in "the little horn?" Is he not mani- 
festly "The man of Sin?" '"The son of perdition?" 
(Dan. 7:2; 2 Thess. 2). This beast as we have 
shown, is the bridegroom of the harlot mother; 
the unclean and unholy character, styled in scrip- 
ture "Babylon the Great." The Beast then is the 
Pope. 

And who is the false prophet? He also is a 
"little horn," but he is not the little horn of 
Daniel seven, through which comes the beastly 
regime. Instead, he is the little horn that came 
up in the head of the great he-goat, after the fall 
of its "notable" horn. If we were to return to a 
study of the four beasts of Daniel this little horn 
would be found to have arisen, not in the head of 
the fourth beast, the nondescript, but in the head 
of the third beast, the leopard. Two beasts, the 
leopard, and the nondescript ; two little horns, one 
out of Rome, the other out of Arabia, or Syria. 
The little horn of Daniel eighth "waxed exceeding 
great and magnified himself to (or above) the 
prince of the host." This was primarily Antiochus 
Epiphanes, but he endured for a very limited time 
and passed away. After a long time there arose 
in Arabia his successor, Mohammed, the prophet. 
In him can be traced the second little horn, and 
here is the "False Prophet." Mohammedans fer- 
vently speak of him as "The Prophet." To them 
he is leader, prophet, dictator, law-giver, king. 



Who is the Beast? 145 

To the Christian, he is an impostor, an enemy of 
righteousness and truth, an antagonist of God and 
His only begotten Son. We find him in the end 
co-operating with the beast in opposing the reign 
of Jesus Christ. 

6. These unclean spirits are representatives 
of all autocracy. The devil, the pope, and Mo- 
hammed, are the world's chief autocratic rulers. 
But Beelzebub is a spirit. He cannot fight his 
battles and shed the blood of men as he would un- 
til he can incorporate himself in a human being. 
Is it, therefore, a far-fetched suggestion that the 
Kaiser of Germany impersonates the autocratic 
spirit of Satan? These three unclean spirits go 
forth to the kings of the earth to gather them to 
"The battle of the great day of God Almighty." 
They are then the originators of the great Arma- 
geddon War. They arouse in the kings of the 
earth the spirit of strife, of war and bloodshed, 
and of opposition to Jesus Christ, our coming 
King. 

Their work is as yet far from completion. 
The Armageddon battle lies in the future. But 
the three autocrats have laid the foundations for 
full and final co-operation when Gog, as the 
Kaiser's ultimate heir and impersonator, launches 
the great Armageddon conflict in Palestine. He 
will control the hordes of Russia * and will have 



*See "Germany and the Armageddon," by Rev. L. L. 
Pickett. Order of publishers of this book. 



146 Who is the Beast? 

the support of the false prophet and the beast — 
that is, Papal and Mohammedan backing. 

7. These unclean spirits are a unit in oppo- 
sition to Christ, and in the support of a non-spir- 
itual religion. They all have a religion, but not 
the religion of Jesus. As our Lord said to Peter 
on one occasion, "Get thee behind me Satan ; thou 
art an offence unto me; thou savourest not the 
things that be of God, but the things that be of 
man." In these religions the human element is 
uppermost. They are ritualistic. They are com- 
plete in the ordinances and performances of men. 
No divine operation is essential to them. They 
are perfunctory, self-centered, papistic, priestly 
and, being without God, lacking in the Divine 
element, they come short of regeneration, and con- 
sequently of salvation. 

8. These spirits of autocracy agree in war 
and bloodshed, they have drenched the earth in 
human gore. The world has long suffered from 
their selfish and godless performances. At last, 
they rally, unite their forces, and go forth to in- 
augurate the greatest war of all the ages. 

This writer has often been puzzled as to the 
basis upon which the beast (the Pope) and the 
false prophet, (the Mohammedan leader) could 
get together. They have been mutually antagonis- 
tic, have fought and resisted each other, but now 
they unite. The reason is clear. The coming of 
Christ draweth near. The legions of the pit stand 



Who is the Beast? 147 

in danger of utter rout. The great Captain of the 
good, the Generalissimo of heaven, is approaching 
with flying banners, so these former enemies sink 
their differences and unite in order, if possible, to 
defeat the forces of the skies. Pilate and Herod 
made friends on the day Christ was tried and con- 
demned. So these representatives of hell, these 
unclean spirits, go forth to rally among the auto- 
crats of earth, the armies of resistance to the 
coming Conqueror. 



CHAPTER XIX. 
The Infernal Trinity. 

A number of things may be found in this 
trinity which make for them common ground. 

1. They are alike enemies to God and His 
saints. All Bible students recognize that there ex- 
ists an unreconcilable enemity between God and 
Satan. They have nothing upon which union can 
be effected. They are eternally, essentially op- 
posed each to the other. They are rivals for uni- 
versal empire. They are both kings and rulers; 
and each claims to be the "King of kings." They 
are not only kings, but gods. Our God is the 
Maker of all things, the Preserver and Upholder 
of all things. But Satan is called in Scripture, 
"The god of this world." (Greek, Age). That 
is, his spirit and life dominate all men who have 
rejected Jesus Christ; such as spurn spiritual re- 
ligion, however full of religiosity; and to these 
he is not only king but God. Both God and Sa- 
tan have a great following; vast armies that en- 
gage in violent combat. (See Rev. 12:7). 

The enmity of Satan to God and His people is 
conceded. But what about the Beast? We read 
that the little horn "Spake great swelling words 
against the Most High." This proves his enmity 

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Who is the Beast? 149 

to God. It is also stated that he "makes war on 
the saints and prevails against them." (Dan 7: 
21-25). 

But what of the false prophet? His charac- 
ter is like unto that of the Beast. They both 
originate in "the times of the Gentiles." They 
both come out of the time in which the four great 
successive beasts ruled the world, the one from 
the region of the third beast, the other out of the 
territory of the fourth. Their origin is in the day 
of unbroken Paganism. They arose in a time and 
a region in which there was no Christ and no 
knowledge of the true God. While for centuries 
the beast and the false prophet have fought each 
other, yet now in their hatred of Jesus they are 
driven to co-operate at the end of the age. The 
devil, being a spirit and immortal, is one individ- 
ual. Not so w 7 ith the Beast and the false prophet. 
They each represent a chain of individuals, a dy- 
nasty, a system which is perpetuated only in the 
renewal of its head. 

We have seen that Nebuchadnezzar represent- 
ed the lion, yet the lion did not pass when he died, 
but was perpetuated in his son and grandson. 
The lion continued as the emblem of Chaldean su- 
premacy until the fall of the Babylonian empire 
on the night of Belshazzar's drunken debauch. 
After the lion comes the bear; this lived in 
Darius and Cyrus and other rulers till the over- 
throw of Darius III, by Alexander. Next comes 



150 Who is the Beast? 

the leopard which represented Alexander the 
Great, but not him only, for his successors in the 
empire were also portrayed by the four heads of 
the leopard. Finally, the great nondescript did 
not represent a single Csesar, as Julius or Augus- 
tus, Nero or Domitian. It is one beast, but a suc- 
cession of rulers. None of these rulers was ever 
recognized as the complete fulfillment of the beast 
through which he was symbolized. Some have 
insisted that the Pope cannot be the beast, or the 
man of sin, because it must stand for an indi- 
vidual. Not so, by any means. In every single 
case under consideration a given symbolic beast 
represents not an individual but a dynasty. These 
two little horns must therefore stand for two 
different chains of rulers, for two complete dy- 
nasties. The little horns arose jointly, early in 
the seventh century. They continue as the legs of 
the Image (Dan. 2) until the whole beastly regime 
is overthrown by the conquering King of glory. 
Their rise is practically coetaneous, their contin- 
uance synchronous, their overthrow complete, and 
in one day. 

This fourth beast, who is "diverse" from all 
others, lived throughout the extent of the Roman 
empire, was perpetuated in the ten horns, till they 
were superseded by the little horn and in him was 
perpetuated the beastly line, till the appearing of 
the Ancient of Days. (Dan. 7:21, 22). In 
popery, we have the beast, which is the man of sin, 



Who is the Beast? 151 

a chain, a system composed of many popes. Like- 
wise, in Islam, we have the continuance of Mo- 
hammed, — the false prophet, the system, the re- 
ligion of blood, propagated by the sword. He, like 
the Pope, lives on in his successors, through the 
Mohammedan rulers, to the time of the joint 
overthrow of the Beast and the false prophet. 

The Devil, the Pope, and the Sultan, are the 
world's great war-breeders. They have appar- 
ently ever delighted in the clash of arms, the 
shedding of blood, and the overthrow of human 
rights and liberties. Study history. While the 
Pope as a king never had a large army, yet he 
has instigated most of the European wars of the 
past thousand years. Papal meddling with the 
educational system of Serbia, through Archduke 
Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the crown of the 
dual monarchy, led to the assassination of this 
crown prince, and proved to be the match which 
set off the present great world holocaust. The 
wars of Spain, of Austria, of Portugal, of France, 
of Mexico; the butcheries of the Hollanders and 
the Flemings, the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 
of the Vaudois, of the Waldenses, of the Albigen- 
ses, etc., may be justly laid at the door of the Pope. 
Willing tools of his were the Duke of Alva, the 
kings of Spain' and France, Bloody Mary, Maxi- 
millian, and others by the score. 

2. They are all likewise, "divine-right rul- 
ers." We all know the Sultan and the Pope, along 



152 Who is the Beast? 

with the German Kaiser, are the chief remaining 
representatives of the old autocratic principle 
of rulers-hip by divine right. We are all familiar 
with the Kaiser's famous phrase, "Me und Gott." 
For long the Sultan's watchword has been, "Allah 
is one God and Mohammed is His prophet." 
With this watchword and the sword they have 
propagated the dogmas of Islam. The Pope like- 
wise has stood forth among men with the twin 
swords of temporal and spiritual power in his 
hand, and on his head the triple crown, which rep- 
resents his claim to dominion over earth, heaven 
and hell. 

Has it ever occurred to the reader, that Satan 
belongs to this same autocratic order? Did he 
not bring in panoramic review before the vision of 
Jesus from the Mountain top, the kingdoms and 
glory of the whole world? Did he not promise 
all of these to the Man of Galilee if He would but 
fall down and worship him? So here we have 
before us the mighty trinity of world rulers, Sa- 
tan, asserting his right in the face of Jesus for all 
dominion; the Pope demanding the same as the 
vice-gerent of Christ, and the Sultan, in the name 
of the prophet, all going forth with the sword of 
universal conquest. 

3. The three unclean spirits, then, come 
forth out of the mouths of the three great world 
autocrats. These three are all exceeding relig- 
ious. Though the Turks are cruel, lustful, vie- 



Who is the Beast? 153 

ious ; though they destroy men and women with- 
out mercy; though their homes are but harems 
and lust is written on their very countenances, 
yet they are so exceedingly religious that when 
the muezzin calls to prayer, whatever the hour of 
the day, they prostrate themselves in the dust to 
pray. But their religion does not purify, it does 
not sanctify, or ennoble ; it lives in harmony with 
cruelty and debauchery. It is not a religion which 
refines and exalts. In like manner, popery counts 
its beads, sprinkles its "holy water," and enters 
its monasteries and nunneries to shut out the 
world ; still it hardens the heart and inculcates a 
spirit of pride and hatred. It is entirely incom- 
patible with the religion of the New Testament. 

The religion of Jesus is one of patience, of 
kindliness, of tenderness, of brotherliness, of ho- 
liness ; it begets no pharisaism, no bigotry, and al- 
lows no place for sin, for lust and uneleanness. 

The devil is as full of religiousness as the 
other members of this bloody trinity. The spirits 
that come from the mouth of this demoniac trini- 
ty are unclean, unholy, autocratic, and all of them 
diametrically opposed to the light, liberty and ho- 
liness of Jesus Christ. 

The devil's militaristic work demands a hu- 
man leader. The Pope and the Sultan can find 
their military leaders in first one nation, and then 
another. But Satan must have his leader of ar- 
mies, he also is militaristic in spirit. He has 



154 Who is the Beast? 

therefore yoked up with the German Kaiser, and 
thus completed the chain of autocratic war-breed- 
ers for the battle of the great day of God Al- 
mighty. The Kaiser becomes the bond of union, 
the connecting link, between the Beast and the 
False Prophet. The unclean spirits go forth from 
the mouths of these three. 



CHAPTER XX. 

Armageddon. 

"And they gathered them together into the 
place which is called in the Hebrew, Armaged- 
don." Rev. 16:16. 

There is no feature of prophetic history about 
which there is more of interest and conjecture — as 
to where and when — than the Battle of Armaged- 
don. Many believe it to be only a figure of speech, 
with a symbolical meaning. The present titanic 
struggle has brought this question out in bold re- 
lief. Aside from its Scriptural significance, it is 
a catchy, rhetorical phrase — often used by orators 
and writers to illustrate the forces of good and 
evil — ending in the overthrow of evil. 

The word — Armageddon — is on every lip these 
days ; Bible students, editors, and public speakers, 
many of whom have little or no Scriptural knowl- 
edge — but do know that such a battle is men- 
tioned — are now asking: "What meaneth these 
things that are coming to pass in the earth? Con- 
necting this future conflict with any principle or 
cause — or at the present with this great war, as 
being the fulfillment of the Armageddon proph- 
ecy, reveals a superficial knowledge of prophetic 
history. Armageddon is not a myth — neither 

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in the past — nor with whatever may take place 
in the future. The place where this battle is to 
be staged can be located, as definitely as any 
other city or country in the world. It is the most 
noted battle-field in all history, especially is it 
true of the Old Testament; it is the world's Wa- 
terloo. Barach won a victory over the Canaan- 
ites ; Gideon over the Midianites ; Saul fought his 
last battle there, and fell; Josiah fought there, 
was overcome and slain by the Egyptians. The 
battles of Gilboa and Megiddo were fought there ; 
also Judah Maccabeus fought a great conquering 
battle ; from the days of the Assyrian and Egypt- 
ian wars Armageddon has been the most famous 
of all battle-fields. Napoleon won his greatest 
victory in the Eastern campaign. The spot is 
marked by a mountain rising up from the r^lain of 
Esdraelon, and this entire plain is the ancient 
stage of more than a score of noted battles. There- 
fore, in the bloody drama yet to be enacted — Je- 
rusalem being the strategic point— this prophetic 
battle must be staged in and around the Holy 
City. 

We are not especially interested in the Arma- 
geddon of the past, but we are profoundly con- 
cerned to know something of the great battle to 
be fought at the close of this dispensation — the 
one yet to be. One thing is certain, this world 
war — at the present stage of development — is not 
the prophetic Armageddon ; this battle will not be 



Who is the Beast? 157 

staged around Berlin, London, Petrograd — or 
Constantinople — but Jerusalem. The theater of 
war thus far has not covered the specifications of 
that important struggle. 

Let this fact be firmly fixed in the mind of the 
reader: the Jew is God's prophetic hand on the 
dial of events; we can only know the progress, 
plans, and movements, from a divine viewpoint, 
by a close observation of the part he plays in na- 
tional affairs. Great tidal waves of events may 
seem to be crowding to the front fulfilling the 
words of prophecy; but as tremendous as they 
may appear, we can know the exact status only by 
watching the index finger of the ages — God's an- 
cient people. The Jew is the centrifugal and cen- 
tripetal center of prophetic history. As we locate 
him, we may know how far spent is the evening. 

We concede the fact that there are some sig- 
nificant things taking place in the Orient — things 
that are being overlooked by the terrible clash 
of arms in the Eastern front. Since the English 
captured Jerusalem, and drove the "Gentile" Turk 
back from a position he has held for nearly thir- 
teen centuries, there is a possibility that events 
may shape themselves rapidly toward a prophetic 
fulfillment. If the Holy City should remain in 
the possession of God-fearing people — so that the 
Gentile Turk can tread down Jerusalem no more — 
it would mark an extraordinary step in the great- 
est drama of the ages : the closing of the Gentile 



158 Who is the Beast? 

Dispensation. These are ominous times, and we 
may be approaching rapidly the world's total 
eclipse in darkness and bloodshed. 

That the Jews are to be gathered in their own 
land, and be re-established as a nation, there can 
be no doubt, if prophecy has any meaning what- 
soever. There is to be a time of peace and secu- 
rity for the Jews after their return to Palestine. 
We are all familiar with the Zionistic movement, 
which has stirred that people as nothing has done 
since the days of their dispersion in the long ago. 
This movement is being indorsed by rulers of na- 
tions — even our own president ; all of which point 
in one general direction: the gathering of those 
people out of all nations, and when gathered they 
will dwell in safety — for a season. (Ezek. 38:8- 
10). 

However this return and re-establishment do 
not remove the veil from their spiritual eyes ; they 
will still be in blindness. Just at this time — the 
time of the restoration of Israel — there will come 
upon the scene the second Beast of Revelation 13, 
the culmination of "the Man of Sin" — the Beast — 
the "Little Horn," whose full-sized photograph we 
have endeavored to give in these chapters. This 
Beast will enter into a covenant with the Jews; 
with flattery he will promise them their country 
in perfect peace and security; and they will be- 
lieve him. But this respite will be but for a sea- 
son ; their days of chastisement are not over — the 



Who is the Beast? 159 

cup has not been drained as yet, and the darkest 
hours are yet to come. 

Somehow the city of Jerusalem has been a cov- 
eted spot in the minds of all world rulers, and 
those who sought to be. It has no national or 
commercial importance; but it seems to be the 
goal of all aspiring nations. There is in the 
thoughts of men an idea that a world-king is to 
rule over Jerusalem. The Mohammedans have 
tenaciously held to it — even guarding the Holy 
Sepulchre. Some years ago the present German 
Kaiser dedicated what he called a "church," with 
inner and outer courts — and one of the most gor- 
geous thrones ever seen by man, since the days 
when Solomon reigned in all his glory. Why 
should any great ruler wish to be enthroned among 
the barren hills and crags of Palestine? It is 
because of its religious significance : the throne of 
Him who is to wield the scepter of universal em- 
pire is to be there. The Sultan, the Kaiser, the 
"Beast" are all looking in that direction. Some 
way Jerusalem is associated v/ith a world im- 
perialism. 

But a sad and terrible day awaits the disobe- 
dient children of Abraham; they have passed 
through much suffering; but the hour of their 
Gethsemane is yet to come. The prophet tells of 
this bitter conflict: "For I will gather all nations 
against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be 
taken, and the houses rifled, and the women rav- 



160 Who is the Beast? 

ished" (Zech. 14:2). Ezekiel also gives us further 
details of this dreadful conflict. It seems that 
Gog is to be the leader, from the land of Magog. 
Some of the best authorities say that Magog is 
none other than Germany. Gog shall be the prince 
of Rosh, which is Russia. The Revised Version 
says that there will be "hordes" and many "peo- 
ples" with Gog. They are to come from the "ut- 
termost parts of the north." A close study of 
Zechariah 14, and Ezekiel 38, shows that a great 
confederation of "peoples" (nations) with 
"hordes" (multitudes) are to join in battle under 
the leadership of Gog, and that they will capture 
Jerusalem. This is to be the climax of "Jacob's 
trouble." 

Some years ago Dr. J. Hudson Taylor of the 
China Inland Mission, said that before many years 
passed, the greatest war ever known in history 
would break out in the world, and that Russia 
would p]ay an important part. "Then," he re- 
marked, "I believe our Lord Himself will shortly 
come." Russia is figuring in the present crisis, 
but is, so far, of little consequence. However, no 
one can tell what a few days or months will de- 
velop. There is to be a federation of nations (peo- 
ples) to join in a Palestinian battle, which will 
crush the Jews, who will at that time be dwelling 
in safety. But they must yet drink more deeply 
for their sins. "And the nations shall know that 
the house of Israel went into captivity for their 



Who is the Beast? 161 

iniquity: because they transgressed against 
me, therefore I hid my face from them: 
so I gave them into the hand of their adversary, 
and they fell all of them by the sword." (Ezek. 
39 :23, 24) . This present war is regarded by many 
to be the prophetic battle of Armageddon ; but is 
just the preliminary ; it is the final stroke that will 
usher in the full blast of the Great Tribulation. 
The Beast — the Antichrist — the Man of Sin — 
the "Little Horn" — takes full control of the world, 
ruling from the ancient seat of power — the Holy 
City ;assuming full authority of all things temporal 
and spiritual; just what he has wanted to do, and 
did do for a while, before he was wounded in the 
head. At that time the whole world will be ab- 
solutely dominated by the devilish Trinity : Satan, 
the Beast, and the False Prophet — all working in 
perfect en rapport for the subjugation of the 
race for whom Christ died. 

The antichrists have been a deadly factor 
throughout the Christian dispensation ; but in the 
Second Little Horn, there will head up all the 
powers of earth and hell — the Superman — a man 
begotten of Satan himself. This Beast will set 
himself up, claiming all worship and honors; no 
name will he allow to be worshipped but his own. 
This will be the "reign of the Antichrist," and be 
contemporaneous with the Great Tribulation. Ja- 
cob's trouble reaches a climax. The earth will 
disclose her blood, and so terrible will be this 



162 Who is the Beast? 

"time of sorrow," this reign of blood, that men will 
no longer be given a decent burial (Isa. 26:21). 

"Earth, what a sorrow lies before thee, 
Unlike it are the shadows past, 

The sharpest throes that ever tore thee, 
Even though the briefest and the last. 

I see the shadows of the sunset, 
I see the dread avenger's form, 

I see Armageddon's onset, 

But I shall be above the storm. 
There comes the mourning and the sighing, 

There comes the hot tears' heavy fall, 
The thousands agonize of dying, 
But I shall be above them all." 

0, those awful coming days. The prophet gives 
us a vivid glimpse of the scene that will take place 
in that day. "The earth shall reel to and fro like 
a drunkard — and the transgression shall be heavy 
upon it, and it shall fall and not rise again" 
(earth's schemes and ideals and aspirations.) (la. 
24:20). 

Yes, the "hordes" and the "peoples" shall come 
from the north like a storm. Rosh (Russia) and 
Germany and her confederates shall fall upon the 
defenseless Jerusalem — thought then to be dwell- 
ing in safety — with doors unlocked, and cities 
without walls. (Ezek. 38:11). But the reign of 
terror and hellish dominion will be of short du- 
ration — perhaps three and a half years ; then the 
greatest event in the history of this planet will 



Who is the Beast? 163 

occur. The end of the Beast is at hand ; his long 
reign and bloody crimes will come to a dramatic 
ending. The battle line of Armageddon will swing 
into view; the crisis of the ages — the strife be- 
tween Christ and antichrist is now to be forever 
settled: it is "the Day of God Almighty." He 
comes forth in His jealousy and pours out His 
wrath upon the nations. Dear reader, if you 
want a vivid picture of Armageddon, read care- 
fully Ezekiel 38:18-23. Ezekiel 39, and Revela- 
tion 6:12-17. 

Time is a small element in God's calender ; even 
a thousand years is but a day. Therefore it is 
easy to confess this great two-fold engagement as 
one battle. When we see by the prophetic eye, 
the three and a half years — the reign of the Beast, 
the time for the opening of the struggle, makes 
it all appear as one event. But it is not. The 
first one marks the absolute triumph of the Beast, 
and his infernal cohorts — along with the entente 
of hell : Satan and the False Prophet. Hear the 
words of inspiration: "Son of man, prophesy 
against Gog, and say, thus saith the Lord Jeho- 
vah: Behold, I am against thee, Gog, 
prince of Rosh (Russia) Meshech, and Tubal. 
I will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel; 
and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and 
will cause thine arrows to fall from thy right 
hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Is- 
rael; thou and all thy hordes (great multitudes) 



164 Who is the Beast, 

and the peoples (nations) that are with thee: I 
will give thee unto the ravenous birds, and the 
beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall 
upon the open field, for I have spoken it, saith the 
Lord Jehovah." Ezek. 39:1-7. 

Now here is one of the results of this engage- 
ment: "And my holy name will I make known 
in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I 
suffer my holy name to be profaned any more: 
and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah — 
the Holy One in Israel." The veil that has for 
so many centuries been blinding the eyes of God's 
people will be removed, and they will now behold 
their long rejected Messiah; the scales,.as it were, 
will fall from their eyes, and they will accept Him 
as their Lord- and King. The morning at last 
dawns for the Jews. 

The battle of Armageddon will not only be a 
human struggle ; but it will be human and divine ; 
the Christ with His angel battalions, in a final bat- 
tle with the Antichrist, leading all the hordes and 
poeples in league with Satan and the False Proph- 
et. Ezekiel gives us full details of the utter de- 
feat of God's enemies. Then he gives us a most 
vivid description of the scenes that will follow 
this terrible battle. "And it shall come to pass in 
that day, that I will give unto Gog a place for 
burial in Israel, and there shall they bury Gog and 
all his multitudes; and seven months shall the 
house of Israel be burying them, that they may 



Who is the Beast? 165 

cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land 
shall bury them, and it shall be to them a re- 
nown in that day that I shall be glorified. ,, Ezek. 
39:11-13. 

Dear reader, we may be nearing those dreadful 
times; the Jews are being restored to Palestine; 
the hand of the dial of prophecy seems to speak 
of the near approach of the most tragic scene of 
all others, in the bloody human drama — staged for 
so many centuries. But the curtain will fall upon 
this last act of blood and sorrow; and will ring 
for a glad, happy morning. John saw the coming 
end in his apocalyptic vision : "And I saw an an- 
gel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud 
voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heav- 
en, Come and be gathered together to the great 
supper of God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings 
and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty 
men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sat 
thereon, and the flesh of all men both free and 
bond, and small and great. And I saw the Beast, 
and the kings of the earth, and their armies gath- 
ered together to make war against him that sat 
upon the horse, and against his army. And the 
beast was taken, and with him the false prophet, 
that wrought the signs in his sight wherewith he 
deceived them that received the mark of the beast, 
and them that worshipped his image: they too 
were cast alive into the lake that burneth with fire 
and brimstone ; and the rest were killed with the 



166 Who is the Beast? 

sword of him that sat upon the horse, even the 
sword that came forth out of his mouth : and all 
the birds were filled with their flesh." (Rev. 19 :17- 
21 ; Read Ezek. 39 : 17-20) , and an exact scene will 
be found — calling for the birds to come to the 
feast. ''And I saw an angel coming down out of 
heaven having the key of the abyss and a great 
chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, 
the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and 
bound him a thousand years. And cast him into 
the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that 
he should deceive the nations no more until the 
thousand years should be fulfilled." Amen. 

Thus the great Armageddon war is fought in 
Palestine, not in France or Belgium. It results 
in the fall of Jerusalem and then eventuates in the 
overthrow of the Beast, the False Prophet, Gog 
(the Prusso-Russian prince) and of Satan. The 
mighty struggle ends in the complete rout of 
earth's rebels, the incarnation of Beelzebub and 
the enthronement of the Prince of Peace. Our 
Christ shall reign, wars shall cease, and peace and 
plenty shall cover a redeemed earth. Glorious 
hope! Blessed prospect! And the day draweth 
near. 



CHAPTER XXI. 

What About Nero? 

There are those who insist that Nero was the 
Antichrist. They contend that this cruel, perse- 
cuting emperor, was the Beast. This is impossi- 
ble, and for many reasons. Observe the follow- 
ing: 

1. As we have already shown, each beast in the 
line, is but a link in a chain ; the lion, the bear, the 
leopard, the nondescript — each embraces a whole 
dynasty, and not simply an individual. Consider 
two instances, (a) While Nebuchadnezzar was 
manifestly the lion, yet it was not complete in him. 
This symbol had to extend through the Babylonian 
monarchy to its end, when it was superseded by 
the bear. Nebuchadnezzar was succeeded in office 
by -his son, Nabonassar, and he in turn 
by his son, Belshazzar. The lion as a symbol 
prefigured the first and greatest of these, but not 
him alone. The great monarch's sons were sym- 
bolized by the lion as much so as he himself. No 
other animal appears until the rise of the bear, 
and hence of necessity all the members of the dy- 
nasty were embraced in the symbol. The Chal- 
dean empire fell in the night of Belshazzar's 
drunken debauch. On that night he was slain and 
the dominion passed to the Medo-Persian rulers. 

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168 Who is the Beast? 

(b) That Alexander was the leopard is clear ; but 
that it was not complete in him is demonstrated 
by the fact that the leopard had four heads, and 
they prefigured, the great conquerer's successors — 
his four generals. The leopard represents the 
whole Greco-Macedonian dynasty, and not simply 
its originator and founder. 

2. Nero was not even the founder of the Roman 
Empire. Had the fourth beast been intended to 
represent a single individual, this would not have 
been Nero. Julius Caesar would more likely have 
been the antitype of this symbol. Nero's reign 
occurs neither at the beginning nor the ending 
of the Caesarian dynasty. This brutal emperor 
was in the chain, because it embraced the whole 
Roman empire and not merely an individual. Ju- 
lius Caesar and Augustus Caesar preceded him, 
were greater than he, and would naturally have 
been the antitype of the fourth beast, had it 
symbolized but a single emperor. Some con- 
tend, however, that Nero was the Beast, 
because of his cruelty and his persecution 
of the saints. Of course he was bloody and cruel ; 
but not more so than Domitian or Caligula. Had 
the great beast been intended merely to represent 
a great persecutor why might we not choose any 
other of those whose tyranny and oppression 
equaled that of Nero? He was heartless, over- 
bearing, possessed of blood-lust ; but as a heartless 
tyrant the sad fact is he was not alone. 



Who is the Beast? 169 

3. Then again the date of Nero's reign is con- 
clusive evidence that he is not the Beast as seen 
by John. He entered upon his office in A. D. 54, 
and there is no real proof that John was banished 
to Patmos till about A, D. 96; more than forty 
years after the beginning of Nero's reign. So 
the beast seen by John could have under no circum- 
stances pre-figured Nero. His reign had most 
likely ended before the banishment of the apostle. 
And we say this, bearing in mind the contention 
of some chronologists that the banishment of the 
Seer occurred at an earlier date than that which 
we have named. Domitian's reign was later by 
several years than that of Nero; accordingly, it 
is possible (though not probable) that he could 
have been portrayed in the Beast revealed in St. 
John. But the argument we have already ad- 
vanced shows, we believe conclusively, that the 
fourth beast of Daniel embraced the whole of the 
imperial Roman dynasty, and no single individual. 
But if an individual were sought in Pagan Rome 
as the anti-type of the Beast why should we not 
settle upon Diocletian? He was very brutal, a 
great persecutor, unsurpassed in cruelty, inflict- 
ing terrible punishments upon the objects of his 
vengeance. 

But it was neither Nero, Domitian nor Diocle- 
tian. It could not have been any of these, be- 
cause, — 

4. The little horn is a part of the beastly re- 



170 Who is the Beast? 

gime which continues to the end of the Gentile 
time, and we are yet in that period. The little 
horn did not arise till after the fall of the old Ro- 
man empire. This occurred when Augustulus 
Avas defeated (A. D. 476) by Odoacer. There 
is no successor to the little horn until the 
appearing and kingdom of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. (See Dan. 7:19-22). The time of 
the little horn is twelve hundred and sixty years, 
as we have shown on another page. This would 
bring us to the Nineteenth century, whereas Nero, 
Domitian, and all the other Roman emperors filled 
out their time and passed away before the com- 
pletion of the fifth century. Even Diocletian, who 
was crowned emperor in two hundred and eighty- 
four, A. D., had passed from earth before the ap- 
pearing of the little horn. So we must look else- 
where than among Pagans and Roman emperors 
for the Beast. 



CHAPTER XXII. 

Is the Kaiser the Beast? 

He is not. All the reasons just given will apply 
in the case of the Kaiser save the one concerning 
his date. Furthermore, it could not be the Ger- 
man Kaiser, because, — 

(a) The Beast has seven heads and ten horns. 
We have shown the seven heads to be the seven 
hills on which Rome is built ; and the seven types 
of government that existed in the old Roman do- 
minion. (Rev. 17:9, 10). 

The ten horns, as we have shown, are the ten 
kingdoms that arose upon the fall of imperial 
Rome. (Dan. 7:24, 25). Neither the seven 
heads nor the ten horns have any connection with 
Germany, or the German Kaiser. There are no 
seven forms or types of rulers in connection with 
the German emperor, nor is his capital, Berlin, 
built on seven hills. 

(b) In John's vision the first beast coming out 
of the sea, has a head which was wounded to 
death, but was afterward healed. Nothing like 
this appertains to Kaiser Wilhelm. He has had 
no head that was wounded to death ; but the Pope 
has. There being no wounded head, there can be 
no such healing. If the Kaiser is the Beast out 
of the sea, then what is the meaning of the wound- 

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172 Who is the Beast? 

•ed head? Does it prefigure his overthrow, and 
the loss of his kingdom? If so, in order that he 
shall fulfill the conditions set forth in the vision, 
his fall must be followed by his restoration. The 
wounded head must be restored. Not only that, 
but all the world must wonder after and worship 
the Kaiser, after the healing of the wounded head. 
No single reason can be given why such results 
should be expected in the case of the German 
ruler. 

(c) Again, this Beast was a persecutor of the 
saints. Not so with Wilhelm II. While he has 
launched upon the world its greatest and bloodiest 
war, his moves are purely political. His war is 
not with the saints as such, nor with heathens; 
his slaughter of the race is founded on other rea- 
sons than as a persecutor of the saints. He wars 
on governments, nations, political powers. 

(d) The Beast has a certain period, forty- 
and-two months, for his war upon the saints; if 
we apply this prophecy to the Kaiser, what is the 
meaning of this period of persecution? Should we 
take the forty-two months symbolically, — a-day- 
for-a-year? This will give us a period of twelve 
hundred and sixty years. Neither the Kaiser per- 
sonally, nor Germany as an empire, has existed 
for so long a time. But if we take the forty-two 
months as literal time measurement, and apply it 
to the present war, we see the falsity of the in- 
terpretation. The war has already lasted for four 



Who is the Beast? 173 

years, which is six months over the allotted time. 
Germany was consolidated into an empire by Bis- 
marck about fifty years ago. If we apply the 
period to the Kaiser's reign it will not fit that, for 
he has worn the crown for more than thirty years. 
So we see that the "forty-and-two months" can- 
not be applied to the age of the Kaiser, to the 
time of his reign, to the period of the great world 
war, nor even to the present age of the German 
Empire. 

(e) But remember, we find two beasts in 
the apocalyptic vision. One comes out of the sea, 
the other arises from the earth, more literally, 
perhaps, from the pit. If we attempt to prove 
the Kaiser to be the Beast, the question naturally 
arises, which is he, the first, out of the sea, or 
the second, out of the earth? He cannot be both, 
for they are distinct individuals. But the objec- 
tor may ask, "How then can the Pope be both 
beasts?" We have abundantly proven that the 
beast represents an entire dynasty, not simply an 
individual. One king passes, another arises ; this 
one passes away and yet another comes; but the 
symbolic bear or leopard will represent the entire 
series or dynasty. The little horn arose in the 
seventh century and has already existed for more 
than twelve hundred years, while nearly three 
hundred popes have occupied the papal chair. It 
is an office that is represented by the symbolic 
beast, and not an individual. 



174 Who is the Beast? 

(f) If the Kaiser is the Beast, wherein is 
his likeness to the leopard, to the bear, to the lion ? 
But the Beast seen by John represents all three 
of these original beasts, as seen in the vision of 
Daniel. (Rev. 13:2). 

(g) If the Kaiser is the second beast, the one 
arising out of the earth, where is his miracle- 
working power? We remember that the Beast 
under review had power to call fire down from 
heaven in the sight of men. Has the Kaiser done 
anything like this? The Beast also gave life to 
an image, so that it could speak; has the Kaiser 
accomplished this marvel? The Beast put up an 
image of his predecessor Requiring all men to 
worship it; amid all his crimes has the Kaiser 
done anything of this sort? To ask these ques- 
tions is to answer them. The Kaiser does not fill 
a single item in the bill of indictment laid against 
the Beast. To make Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Beast 
of John's vision, is priestly camouflage. 

(h) All the world wondered after the beast 
and worshipped him. Has the whole world fallen 
down before the Kaiser? Are the peoples and na- 
tions worshipping, serving and honoring the 
Kaiser ? 

The Kaiser's record is black, brutal, bloody. 
He is a self-centered, blood-guilty, vain-glorious, 
egotistic, power-loving, able, militaristic maniac. 
Though a man of brains, of force, an organizing 
genius, yet the Kaiser is a poor, deluded criminal, 



Who is the Beast? 175 

yea, a bloody autocrat. He is not the Beast. To as- 
sert that he is, contradicts and nullifies the entire 
scriptural outline of the prophecy. Such ignor- 
ance of Scripture as would make the Kaiser the 
Antichrist, the Beast, utterly disqualifies one as 
an expounder of Scripture. But the Beast stands 
before us in full outline. He is silhouetted against 
the ages. We have shown his picture in these 
pages. On it may be found every mark of the 
Beast. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

The Wounded Head. 

(Rev. 13:2.) 

A strange sight faces us. The Beast, with its 
plurality of heads, has to surrender one unto 
death. This head was not simply crippled, in- 
jured, put out of commission for a limited time, 
but its wound was fatal — unto death. What was 
the head thus destroyed? Was it not the Pope's 
temporal power? Surely this was one of his 
heads, and it was put to death. When the armies 
of re-united Italy invested Rome, in 1870, they 
defeated the papal armies, marched into the Eter- 
nal City and wrenched the government from the 
Pope. No compromise was effected; the Papal 
King lost the government, he was dispossessed of 
the throne, the sceptre, and the crown of kingly 
authority. The kingdom passed from his control 
and he has exercised no kingly dominion from 
that day until this ; though a king for centuries, 
he is a king no more. This head was destroyed, 
wounded unto death. 

It is said by competent authority, that prior 
to the fall of the papacy, Rome was the worst 
governed city on earth; political corruption, in- 
trigue, graft, oppression, mis-management 

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Who is the Beast? 177 

abounded on every hand. The people of Rome to 
this day hate and curse the clerical grafters of 
the ancient days. Italy would fight long and 
hard before returning to the days of injustice and 
robbery from which they escaped a half century 
ago. 

But even yet the priestly intriguers are bend- 
ing their every energy to secure a return of the 
Papal states, to the kingly control of him whom 
they fondly style, "The Holy Father." Woe-worth 
the day of their success, the day when the plot- 
ters shall succeed in placing him once more on 
the long-coveted throne. 

But some think it impossible that the tem- 
poral power of the Pope could ever be restored. 
Would they were right. Under normal conditions, 
we could not expect the people of Italy to again 
accept the Christo-Pagan cleric as their king. But 
his restoration will not be in normal times. It 
will occur during the days of the great tribulation, 
when the saints shall have been caught up to be 
with Jesus at the marriage-supper of the Lamb. 
The Word of God, our highest authority, one that 
never fails, plainly informs us of the fact 
that the wounded head shall be restored. The 
temporal power that has passed away shall be 
again given to the Pope. As sure as the Bible is 
the Word of God, so surely shall this thing come 
to pass. 

Another item of interest is given us ; we read, 



178 Who is the Beast? 

"The whole world wondered after the beast." Not 
only this, but all men, whose names are not writ- 
ten in the book of life, shall in the day of his pow- 
er, worship the Beast. 

"But how can this be?" one may inquire. We 
may not be able to tell you "how." Many prophetic 
utterances are utterly incapable of comprehension 
until they have been fulfilled before our eyes. The 
fact of the restored head is plainly revealed. The 
"how" is as yet one of God's secrets. But to a 
believer there is no choice. We must accept the 
word of inspiration as infallible, or deny its divine 
origin. When God says a thing shall be, no one 
but a carping, higher-critic, or a blatant infidel, 
can deny the fact. What the Almighty declares 
shall be is as absolutely true as what He informs 
us has been. 

His word is truth. Not a jot or tittle of it 
shall fail ; it will happen even as it says. Though 
the Beast's head was wounded unto death, it shall 
be healed, and "all the world" shall stand in rev- 
erent amazement before the apparently uncon- 
querable Beast. The head that was wounded was 
not the spiritual dominion of the Pope, that con- 
tinues to this day ; but the wounded head was the 
temporal power, and it shall be healed. 

In the days of the second Beast we find the 
whole world becomes absolutely subservient. His 
dominion is extended to realms hitherto outside 
his domain. In other days only the Papal states, 



Who is the Beast? 179 

a small part of Italy, were directly subject to his 
rulership; but in the bloody days of the coming 
tribulation, it will be not merely the small terri- 
tory known as the Papal states but the entire 
world that shall worship in reverence and obey 
the Beast. Men in the delusions of the hour shall 
ask with great gusto, "Who is able to make war 
with the Beast ?" 

It is well to look backward a moment. The 
four ancient beasts, the lion, the bear, the leopard, 
and the greatest of them all, the mighty nonde- 
script, were all world-rulers. Their kingdoms 
each covered what was to them supposed to be 
"the world." They are looked upon in history as 
world empires. After the overthrow of the 
fourth beast, the one whose sweep of power was 
the mightiest of earth potentates, there arose no 
other world ruler. There arose ten horns, and 
after them the little horn ; but none of these ruled 
anything comparable to the old world empires. 
The Pope's influence has been almost world wide, 
but his dominion as a king was small. His dynas- 
ty, how r ever, extends through a longer period than 
that of former rulers. He fills in the gap from 
the fall of the great Roman world-dominion until 
the second coming of Jesus, who will found the 
fifth great world empire. Indeed, Jesus is earth's 
greatest Potentate. The one surviving member 
of the old wild-beast regime, is the little horn, the 
Pope. But when the days of the transgressions 



180 Who is the Beast? 

come to the full, the old wild-beastly regime shall 
revive, and come also to its fulness. Do you ask 
for our proof? It is in the lesson under review — - 
the thirteenth of Revelation. Here you see the 
Beast come up out of the sea, having in himself 
the combined natures of all the original beasts. 
He is a composite ; he unites in himself the lion, the 
leopard and the bear. This was undoubtedly true 
of the great fourth beast. Daniel does not de- 
scribe him, but simply says that in appearance he 
was, "diverse" from all the others. Now St. John 
tells us wherein this diversity lies. It is in the 
composite character of the unnamed beast. 

The fourth beast in Daniel's day, as well as 
in John's, occupied the palace and the throne of 
his dominion in Rome, the City of seven hills; 
having also the seal of the seven forms of old Ro- 
man rulership. The location of the beast, his 
seven heads and his ten horns, are manifest in 
both visions although many centuries intervened 
between them. The full beastly regime and pre- 
rogative reunited and revived in the Johanian 
vision of the latter days. It all stands out clearly 
revealed to our vision. The wounded head re- 
vives; the composite beast assumes once more 
world dominion, and his deluded victims, dupes 
and followers, fling upon the breeze their chal- 
lenge, "Who is able to make war with the Beast?" 
Great is his power, mighty his influence, enor- 
mous his following, infernal his character. 



Who is the Beast? 181 

Under this Beast, the world is divided into 
two parts — the adherents of the Beast, his fol- 
lowers, worshippers, and willing tools on the one 
hand, while on the other hand, are those whose 
names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 
The Beast has, through all the ages, been an ene- 
my and persecutor of the saints. He and they 
have had nothing in common. He has been a 
king, has had power in the earth, has been a ruler 
of men in the Gentile age. The saints have been 
few, have had to come out from among the world 
and be separate. (2 Cor. 6:14-18). While the 
beast has had large following, has at his pleasure 
crowned and dethroned kings and rulers; has 
largely had his way in the affairs of nations, yet 
the saints have been poor, obscure, spurned and 
rejected by the great. The Beast has rejected the 
Bible as the only authority, having set over 
against it laws and traditions of his own making. 
He has demanded that his utterances and enact- 
ments shall have the same authority as the Bible, 
yea, even greater. He places himself and his laws 
in antithesis to Jesus Christ; thereby supplanting 
the dominion and authority of our Lord. He has 
put ritualism in the place of Christian experience ; 
has substituted his "saints," and dogmas, and 
himself, for the Christ of Calvary. Those who 
are dupes of the Beast pray more to Mary than 
to the Son of Mary ; more to "saints" than to the 
God of saints. With his wounded head healed, 



182 Who is the Beast? 

» 

his kingly power restored and made world-wide, 
he, as his great proto-type, the lion, erects an 
image to whom all men must bow or suffer death. 
Jesus, the God-Man, carries in His own proper 
person the elements of humanity and deity. He 
is real man ; he is very God. Satan has for cen- 
turies fought and attempted to thwart and defeat 
King Jesus. To do this he has used Paganism, 
Mohammedanism, and Politico-ecclesiasticism. 
While by these means he has destroyed a multi- 
tude of souls and for years has benighted the 
world, yet victory has not crowned his battles. 
Christ is yet undefeated. The servants of the 
Most High are yet active, the truth is yet pro- 
claimed, souls yet weep their way by the cross to 
the crown. 

At the last, the Dragon marshals all his forces, 
gathers all his resources, forms in battle array all 
his mighty legions. Satan himself takes charge 
of his armies. Next to himself on the one side 
may be seen the Beast, on the other the False 
Prophet. The issue is joined. The legions of Hell 
and Heaven meet in battle array. The artillery of 
Heaven reverberates from the hills of glory, that 
of Hell belches forth from the regions infernal. 
Masses move and surge on either side, tfie 
shouts of command echo down the line, the con- 
flict deepens, hell is moved to its depths, earth 
trembles under the mighty tread of the crashing 
legions in the great conflict. This is the culmina- 



Who is the Beast? 183 

tion of the war of the ages. Who shall win? 
From the ranks of which side shall the banners of 
victory float? Hark! a mighty shout of victory 
pierces the air, the King Immortal, Eternal All- 
glorious rides forth, followed by the armies of 
heaven in full array. The morale of the legions 
infernal is broken, the forces of darkness give 
back, the discomfited legions of hell flee in confu- 
sion and rout. The generalissimo of the defeated 
forces is seized and hurled into the pit. The 
Beast and the False Prophet are captured alive 
and thrust helpless, confused, overwhelmed into 
the lake of fire. The career of the Beast is ended. 
The work of the False Prophet is over. Christ is 
King. His ransomed gather with Him around the 
throne of victory. Death is defeated. Hell is 
driven from the field of battle. There waves over 
earth the flag of eternal triumph. Christ, my 
Christ, Savior, Redeemer, King, shall reign for- 
ever. All hail ! 



CHAPTER XXIV. 
The Pope and the World- War. 

The Vatican has been appealing to the powers 
for peace. One would think that the Pope is 
strictly neutral. Indeed, such is the contention of 
his adherents. But is he neutral? There are 
many reasons for believing that he is a secret ally 
of Germany, especially of Austria. We know that 
he is an enemy of the Italian government. No 
Pope ever leaves the Vatican after his elevation 
to the Papacy. They live and die within its 
walls. The reason is, that the Pope, having lost 
his crown and throne, claims to be "a prisoner." 
Hence, calling the Vatican his imperial palace, 
and at present his only domain, he shuts himself 
up within its walls and seeks the sympathy of the 
nations. He would certainly go his length to 
overthrow the government of Italy. Accordingly, 
we are not surprised at the following note which 
we take from the New York Tribune of November 
28, 1917: 

"The Austrian and German kaisers have 
promised the pope that the restoration of the tem- 
poral power of the papacy shall be one of the first 
fruits of their triumph. Every clerical influence 
has been exerted to break down the morale of the 
Italian soldiers and to weaken the allegiance of 
the Italian forces. Since the pope made his peace 

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Who is the Beast? 185 

gesture a few months ago Italian troops have been 
encouraged to cheer for the pope and for peace 
until the terms are becoming synonymous. What 
the Bolsheviki did in Petrograd the clericals and 
the Italian socialists have done in Rome." 

Were the press of our times not afraid of the 
Jesuits, it is probable that the people of this coun- 
try would have been regaled with much literature 
of this kind, but it is a rare thing indeed to find 
anything in the metropolitan press that would 
create the slightest suspicion against the papal 
authorities. 

We remember that in October and November 
last, when the Austro-Germanie troops crossed 
the Julian Alps, more than three hundred thou- 
sand Italian soldiers threw down their arms, re- 
fusing to fight. The public press has usually at- 
tributed this defection to the influence of the So- 
cialists. But the Socialists have not been able to 
disintegrate the German, Austrian, French or 
English armies, and yet they worked as diligently 
in those armies as among the troops of Italy. 
Hence, there is another reason for the surrender 
of such vast numbers of troops. Rev. B. M. Tip- 
ple is a Methodist missionary, at the head of the 
Methodist Mission in the City of Rome. From a 
communication of his through the Christian Her- 
ald, (New York), Jan. 23, 1918, we quote the fol- 
lowing : 

"The greatest thing that has happened to our 



186 Who is the Beast? 

work is what President Wilson has done for the 
moral leadership of our nation. It has shown 
southern Europe the character of Protestantism 
and the character of America. Six months ago, 
Roman Catholicism was again powerful in Italy. 
I say again, because the old fight for union and 
freedom that resulted in the crowning of the King 
in Rome in 1870 and the destruction of the tem- 
poral power of the Pope — when the King moved 
into the Quirinal and the Pope into the Vatican — 
that fight between the Vatican and modern Italy 
resulted in great damage to Roman Catholicism, 
because the patriots saw that they could not be 
good patriots and good Catholics, and they chose 
to be good patriots. Then the war broke out and 
the Vatican dispatched thousands and thousands 
of priests to the front. These priests met the 
common soldier. They wrote letters for him. 
They looked after him in a sort of Y. M. C. A. 
fashion. When a boy was wounded they visited 
him and talked with him. They came close to 
the ordinary soldier in a very human and sympa- 
thetic way. The result was that they revived 
again the influence of the church through this per- 
sonal ministration in the war. That worked well 
until it was discovered that the political policy of 
the Vatican was against the Allies and with the 
Central Powers. 

"How did it become evident? Did you read 
of any protest against the devastation of Bel- 



Who is the Beast? 187 

gium? That is a good Catholic country. Cardi- 
nal Mercier went down to see if he could get 
moral backing at Rome and they sent him back to 
Belgium disappointed. The Central Empires all 
along have been most solicitous about the Vatican, 
and have shown themselves most friendly with it, 
while the Vatican has issued peace notes when the 
Allies did not want them. They were an embar- 
rassment to the Allies, but insistently the Vatican 
— with Germany — continued to send them out. 
The last one came after Lloyd George and the 
President had said emphatically that they did not 
want peace notes. That shows the hostility of 
the Vatican to the Allies. 

"And why should not the Vatican be with the 
Central Powers? The last great autocracy left 
in Europe is the Vatican. In Germany, in Aus- 
tria — in all the countries — the rich, conservative 
elements move in sympathy toward the Vatican 
because it is the last great stronghold of vested 
rights, of the monarchical idea. 

"When the Pope issued this last appeal for 
peace it greatly embarrassed the Allies. It was 
distributed among the soldiers at the front, par- 
ticularly in Italy, and was read by those soldiers, 
weary of the fighting. After this message had 
come from the Pope, the priests who had gained 
the confidence of the soldiers came to them and 
said, 'It is too bad ! The Holy Father wants peace. 
Everybody wants peace. We must pray for 



188 Who is the Beast? 

peace/ They did not say anything treasonable, 
but they talked to the boys in this way, of the de- 
sire of everybody for peace, and it really took the 
nerve out of many of them, so that, when the Aus- 
trians made their offensive, perhaps the defen- 
sive was not as strong as it otherwise would have 
been. Thousands and thousands of people are 
saying in Italy today that the weakening of Italy's 
resistance was due to the influence of the Vatican 
propaganda promulgated by the priests. They 
are saying nothing openly and officially, but there 
is the general feeling in nearly all circles that the 
real fault of this great disaster is to be laid to the 
Vatican and its activities. The result is, that 
Benedict XV finds himself in the most difficult 
position since the days of Pius IX, when the 
troops of Victor Emanuel came into Rome. Un- 
less the Pope changes his attitude, we shall hear 
of some radical doings in Italy after the war. 1 
have seen no such spirit against the Vatican as 
there is today. 

"There never was a clearer issue than that be- 
tween the Allies and the Central Empires. It is 
as clear as daylight that we are fighting the fight 
between autocracy and democracy. America is 
not only fighting for the freedom of France and 
the other Allied European nations, she is fighting 
for democracy, for the rule of the people, for her 
own independence. If we lose, America will sign 
over." 



Who is the Beast? 189 

This is really expert testimony. The author 
of the above lines is a leader of men, a student 
of conditions, a man of world-vision. Those who 
have kept up with the facts of the famous Gerlach 
episode can fully appreciate the above statement 
of Mr. Tipple's. This man Gerlach was of Ger- 
man origin. He had stood high in business and 
political circles in the Germanic empires. He was 
Chamberlain to the Pope, and therefore a member 
of the official Vatican household. Monsignors 
Gerlach, Pomarici and Gunther, all Papal lumi- 
naries, have been definitely connected with Ger- 
man propaganda in an effort to overthrow the 
Italian government. These men were accused, in 
connection with certain anarchists, of blowing up 
two Italian ships-of-war. From a writer in the 
St Louis Post-Dispatch (August 26, 1917), we 
read as follows: "To say that the Vatican has, 
wittingly or unwittingly, been pulling chestnuts 
out of the fire for Germany and Austria is to un- 
derstate the case. Not a week passes but some 
fact comes to the cold light of day showing how 
much the Vatican is involved in German and Aus- 
trian intrigue." He mentions the fact that the 
Italian government condemned von Gerlach to 
life imprisonment for his offenses against the gov- 
ernment. It appears that this villain made use of 
the Papal private mail pouch to pass out secrets 
to Germany that involved the very life and honor 
of Italy. All these men were not only in the em- 



190 Who is the Beast? 

ploy of the Pope but were in intimate touch and 
association with him. 

From the Kansas City Times (August 20, 
1917), a writer under the date line of Berne, 
Switzerland, says: "While the Pope's note is 
dated from the Vatican it is avowed here that it 
was drafted at the Roman Catholic Monastery at 
Einsiedein, where von Buelow, Herr Erzberger, 
Baron Ritten, the Bavarian Minister to the Vati- 
can, Baron Muhlberg, the Prussian Minister to 
the Vatican, and the Father General of the 
Jesuits, an Austrian subject, have a council cham- 
|ber. Though the Pope is nominally responsible 
for the note, it is believed that it emanated from 
Austria and the German Center Party, and dates 
back to about a month ago, when Herr Erzberger 
was in Switzerland/' 

From another Associated Press dispatch, we 
have this: "Within Entente diplomatic circles 
the opinion was freely and promptly expressed 
that the peace proposal was inspired by Germany, 
and was an attempt to split the Allies in a conflict- 
ing discussion of their war aims." 

From a clear writer we take the following, 
which is an extract from "Jesuitism in Practice:" 
"In 1896, twenty-one years ago as I write this, I 
was informed that the German spy system in the 
United States used the German Catholic Verein 
as its headquarters and was in active co-operation 
with it. I was also informed that this Verein of 



Who is the Beast? 191 

St. Louis kept a card index bureau and files of 
information as to the characteristics, family his- 
tory, 'family skeletons/ and failings and weak- 
nesses of all the public men and people of promi- 
nence, both friendly and unfriendly, not only to 
the Roman Catholic propaganda in the United 
States, but of matters useful to the German Spy 
System. It was an alien 'seditions bureau' of in- 
formation, for as a German spy is an alien, so is a 
Romanist whose first allegiance is to the Pope of 
Rome. Said Verein, it was claimed, was a gath- 
erer of information by father confessors, secre- 
taries of bishops, etc., and an indexer and secret 
cover for the German secret service and spies ; a 
classifier furnishing Bonzano's office with matter 
as to Congressmen, and things of special interest 
to the political propaganda. . . . The remarkable 
efficiency and excellent ramifications of the Ger- 
man secret service, is due to the fact that since 
1892, when Kaiser Wiihelm II, made the secret 
treaty with the Pope (Leo XIII), the Jesuits and 
the German secret service became like Chang and 
Eng, the Siamese twins ; that is, though separate 
individuals, still so united that the life of one de- 
pended upon the other. The repeal of the Kulter- 
kampf laws and reversal of all of Bismarck's 
Protestant and anti-Papal policies, the repeal of 
the acts expelling the Jesuits, and the forcing out 
of Bismarck were all the result of Jesuit intrigue." 
Evidences multiply and witnesses increase in- 



192 Who is the Beast? 

dicating a secret working agreement between the 
Papal bureaucracy and the Central Empires. The 
Pope has shown great interest in Austria, but has 
manifested little concern over the destruction of 
Belgium. From the Protestant Alliance Maga- 
zine, London, we have the following: "The blow 
which has fallen on Belgium is for the purpose of 
finding, through the subjugation of France, a way 
to humiliate and conquer Britain. The Kaiser 
was even more friendly with the Pope than 
Kruger, who, in 1882, is said to have presented 
Pope Leo XIII with a diamond worth about 
$400,000.00. The Kaiser's portrait hangs on the 
walls of the Vatican, and is in its albums. The 
glittering cross worn on the breast of Leo XIII 
was a gift from the German Kaiser, to whom 
that Pontiff often alluded as 'My best European 
friend/ Constant, flattering communications 
passed between the Pontiff and the Emperor. 
When the latter went to Rome in 1903 he visited 
the Pope in state, amid the applause of priests 
and monks. A Te Deum was sung in St. Peters 
on his birthday, which mark of approval the 
Kaiser returned by bestowing a decoration on 
the Black Pope, General of the Jesuits." 

For a number of the above quotations we are 
indebted to "The Vatican, The Kaiser and the 
World War." 

Confirmatory of what we have said, consider 
the case of Canada and of Australia. The English- 



Who is the Beast? 193 

speaking sections of these two countries rushed 
quickly and with all their resources to the aid of 
the mother-country at the very beginning of the 
great war. Not so with the Roman Catholic sec- 
tions. Quebec in Canada was settled by the 
French. One would naturally expect them to have 
volunteered heartily in defense of their mother- 
land. France has been in the very heart of the 
great holocaust. She has been scourged until al- 
most destroyed and yet the Canadian French have 
taken no interest in her sufferings and made 
practically no effort for her defense. Why? The 
answer is, Romanism and priestcraft. They 
would sit supinely by and allow their own mother- 
land crushed and destroyed at the instigation of 
the Pope. And why should the Vatican hate 
France? Simple enough. The French Republic 
has repudiated the established church, driven out 
the Jesuits and greatly restricted the grafting 
operations of the priests. 

The Romanists in Australia prevented con- 
scription, even as they sought to do in Canada, 
thus delaying victory. 



CHAPTER XXV. 
The Irish Situation. 

Many people of this country are greatly con- 
cerned over what they consider the "liberties" of 
the Emerald Isle. You hear them say, "The 
United States should demand of England Home 
Rule for Ireland." Nonsense! The United 
States should attend to its own business. Home 
Rule is no concern of the Protestants of this coun- 
try. Is not the reader aware that "Home Rule" 
is nothing but "Rome Rule." Some three or four 
counties in the north of Ireland are Protestant. 
This is what is known as the Ulster section. It is 
inhabited chiefly by the Scotch-Irish, who are a 
vigorous, intelligent, home-loving, Bible-reading, 
Sabbath-keeping, God-fearing, independence-lov- 
ing people. They will not bend the knee to the 
Romish priests. Their section of the little Isle is 
prosperous, possesses good schools, has many fac- 
tories, and shows evidences of general thrift. 

But as the traveller goes southward he reaches 
the Roman Catholic section of Ireland. Here the 
people are illiterate, superstitious and poor. The 
priests lord it over them. They rob, grind and op- 
press them. Even the voters are but tools in their 
hands. Hence the type of government is deter- 

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Who is the Beast? 195 

mined by the spirit of popery. This part com- 
prises from 60 to 70 per cent of Ireland's popula- 
tion. Set up the so-called "Home Rule" in Ire- 
land and what will be the result. These blinded 
dupes of popery, driven by the lash of the priests, 
will subjugate the Protestant population to their 
unjust and oppressive laws. Bear in mind that 
the wealth of Ireland is in Protestant hands. 
Hence the priests have refused consistently to ac- 
cept Home Rule for the Irish Counties. And why? 
Plain enough. They could not tax the Protestant 
factories, farms, wealth and resources. This 
would spoil their grafting plans. The priests 
must manipulate politics, inaugurate laws and 
rape the treasury. But their graft would suffer 
greatly if dependent only on Roman Catholic re- 
sources. Nothing will satisfy them but to con- 
trol and tax and rob the Protestant wealth of the 
unhappy Isle. 

What is the origin of Sinn Fein? Popery. 
Who was Sir Roger Casement, executed during 
the Sinn Fein, for treason? He was a dupe of 
the papacy. Who is it that opposes England in 
this war? The priests and their following. From 
an Associated Press dispatch dated Dublin, April 
21, 1918, we read: 

"Throughout Ireland today the covenant to 
resist the imposition of conscription by all possi- 
ble means has been administered by priests and 
subscribed to in a quiet, uneffusive manner by 



196 Who is the Beast? 

hundreds of thousands of people. From every 
Catholic pulpit it was the subject of discourse, and 
Bishops and political leaders explained the sub- 
ject. The practice followed in many cases was 
for the priest to read the pledge sentence by sen- 
tence, the people reciting after him. In other 
cases the pledge was given by the raising of 
hands or the signing of a paper. The Bishop took 
part with the inferior clergy in administering the 
pledge, addressing the people and generally warn- 
ing them against isolated and unconsidered action. 
They urged obedience to the orders of the recog- 
nized leaders, who act in co-operation. 

Reader, are you surprised that before the 
great war, while the papists were pushing for 
Home Rule, Sir Edward Carson had raised in 
Ulster an army of 100,000 brave soldiers, w r ho 
pledged themselves to die on the field of battle 
rather than submit to papistic "Home Rule?" 
With the spirit that inspired our Protestant fore- 
fathers to brave the savagery of New England 
that they might escape the oppresions of popery 
before us, we can understand and sympathize with 
the brave Protestant forces of Ireland. Who 
would expect them to prefer English rule as 
against democracy, the rule of their own people, 
if they saw that they could obtain justice? But 
they would much rather have the fair and just 
laws of Protestant England than to be ruled by 
a medieval autocrat on the banks of the Tiber. 



Who is the Beast? 197 

Popery and priestcraft have robbed and oppressed 
the people of Italy, of Spain, of France and other 
parts of the world until they are rising in rebell- 
ion. The Protestants of Ireland, should they 
come under the dominion of the priests, would 
find their schools Romanized, their government 
Jesuitized, their liberties abridged and their 
wealth confiscated. Let no fair-minded, liberty- 
loving American citizen ever again speak a word 
that might help the Jesuits of Ireland to triumph 
in their efforts to establish "Rome Rule" over 
the Emerald Isle. 

The Kaiser, the Sultan of Turkey, and the 
Pope of Rome are in cahoots for the preservation 
of their autocracy in its conflicts with the demo- 
cratic aspirations of humanity. They are the 
last surviving members of the old-world autocra- 
cies. Our fight is for human rights and liberties, 
for the Bible as an unhampered emblem of pro- 
gress and human uplift. Let us stand for the 
honor of God and for the rights of man, against 
Kaiserism and papal superstition and oppression. 

THE END. 



APPENDIX A. 



Since writing this book the great war has 
come to a close. Some things have happened that 
call for a few words in this supplemental form. 
A careful investigation of the "Enemy Alien" and 
"Seditious" bunch we believe would show most of 
the James A. O'Leary stripe of trouble-makers in 
this country to have been adherents of the papacy. 
This does not imply by any means that all Ro- 
man Catholics are seditious, or in any sense un- 
true to our country. We know that many of 
them are patriotic and would follow the Stars and 
Stripes as faithfully and as far as any Ameri- 
can of any faith. 

But we do mean to say, that there is in Ro- 
manism, as a system, a spirit that inclines many 
of its unreasoning devotees to put their reverence 
for the Papacy ahead of their love of country. 
And such purblind zealots fall easily into the 
meshes of the traitor. Romanism is a govern- 
ment, a monarchy, within itself. Hence, it tends 
to undermine patriotism, to supplant devotion to 
one's country and flag. Such tendency will bear 
seditious fruit in hearts under priestly control. 
The Vatican, to many, means more than the Cap- 
itol at Washington. For confirmation of this on- 

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Who is the Beast? 199 

]y recall the words of Priest Phelan, Editor The 
Western Watchman, St. Louis, "You tell us that 
we think more of the church than we do of the 
United States; of course we do. You tell us we 
are Catholics first, and Americans or Englishmen 
afterward; of course we are. You tell us in the 
conflict between the Church and the civil govern- 
ment, we take the side of the Church; of course 
we do. Why, if the government of the United 
States were at war with the Church, we would 
say tomorrow, To hell with the Government of 
the United States/ And if the Church and all the 
governments of the world were at war, we would 
say, To hell with all the governments of the 
world.' " 

These words were spoken in a sermon in the 
Cathedral, St. Louis, in June, 1914, and were af- 
terwards printed in his own paper. We have 
no reason to doubt that he meant every word he 
spoke. But why use such language? We have 
never heard, or heard of, such language from a 
Protestant pulpit. There is no reason for a con- 
flict, a war, between the Church and the govern- 
ment. Their spheres are different. One is of 
God, the other of Csssar, and under our Lord's 
direction, not the Pope's, we give unto each his 
due. No man who can utter, or subscribe to, 
such a sentiment, is worthy of American citizen- 
ship. 

What right had 



200 Who is the Beast? 

THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 

to recognition in the army? It is a secret, oath- 
bound order, not open to Protestants, but com- 
posed entirely of Roman Catholics. The Bap- 
tists had no special recognition as such in the 
army ; nor had the Presbyterians, the Methodists, 
the Lutherans, the Disciples. On what ground 
should the Romanists have sectarian recognition 
in our army ? It is against our fundamental rule 
of separation of Church and State. Rome holds 
for their union, but our government accepts, 
theoretically, the Protestant doctrine of separa- 
tion. But in this case Rome induced our gov- 
ernment to reverse itself and give the papal ma- 
chine a right of way among our soldier boys. 

But, it may be argued, the other churches used 
the Y. M. C. A. as an agency through which they 
ministered to the army's religious needs. Very 
well, then, why did the priests not come in and 
work as the Protestant churches, through the Y. 
M. C. A.? Is it because the Protestants are not 
fit to associate with the priests of Rome? If so, 
her attitude brands her priests as Pharisees, mov- 
ing on a plane of the ancient hypocrites, "I am 
holier than thou." We remember how the Lord 
of all denounced the ancient Pharisees. Has He 
more use and respect for these twentieth cen- 
tury Pharisees? 

If Romanism is a church, she should work 
through the Y. M. C. A. with the other churches. 



Who is the Beast? 201 

If she is not a church she should certainly have 
no special favors shown her in the field of relig- 
ious activities. 

If she went to the army on a basis of religious 
unity and helpfulness she should have co-operated 
with others who were actuated by a like motive. 
But if she went with her own labels and para- 
phernalia, to promote her creed and her sectarian 
purposes, she should have been refused recogni- 
tion, and given no place. 

The writer appreciates any unselfish, patriotic 
service rendered our country from whatever 
source. His heart w r as very fully in the war, and 
he prayed fervently for the triumph of our cause } 
feeling it to be the cause of right and of human 
liberty. But why should we make war on one au- 
tocrat and play into the hands of another? Why 
seek to destroy Kaiser Wilhelm and pour honors 
on the head of Pope Benedict? The Pope is the 
father of autocracy. Of all "divine right" rulers, 
he stands at the head, claiming to be the Vice- 
gerent of God. 

THIRTY MILLIONS FOR ROME. 

In the recent "war work" drive for $170,500,- 
000 (and more was realized) we were plainly told 
that $30,000,000 of it was for "The Methodist 
War Council." No, bless me ; I've written it down 
wrong. It was for "The National Catholic Coun- 
cil." And this, I like to have said, in a Protestant 
land ! But not so ; for there was very little pro- 



202 Who is the Beast? 

testing. But this is a land where four-fifths, and 
more, are so-called Protestants. Why not protest? 

Now, suppose the teaching of this book is true ; 
suppose the Pope is indeed, "The Man of Sin," 
"The Beast," the Antichrist. Then what? Why, 
simply this, The United States Government has 
given the Antichrist official recognition, and 
Christian people have helped to finance his work. 

The writer has fought "the Beast" too long 
to turn right around now and drop money into 
his coffers. We had two sons in the army, but I 
have no hesitancy whatever in saying, I should 
far rather have them buried in unmarked graves, 
in far-off France, than have them return home 
adherents of Romanism, dupes of priestcraft. 

When one loves his country, would give his 
boys and his own life fighting under its flag, it 
cuts to the quick to have the government of his 
own loved land give official recognition to a power 
that has ravaged the race, destroyed the liberties 
of men, and has foisted upon humanity the blood- 
iest and most debasing paganism known to his- 
tory, the mightiest enemy of God and pure Chris- 
tianity known to earth. 

We note the following, from Ex-Secretary of 
the Navy, R. W. Thompson. He says: "The in- 
fluence of our example finds a striking illustration 
in the revolution in Italy in 1870, which abolish- 
ed the temporal power, or kingship, of the pope, 
separated the State from the Church, and estab- 



Who is the Beast? 203 

lished a constitutional form of government in 
place of the absolute monarchism which had pre- 
vailed, almost uninterruptedly, for many cen- 
turies. The fires of this revolution had been 
burning for a long time, kindled originally by op- 
pressions, which had been so magnified that the 
people could endure them no longer." Be- 
fore he entered Rome with his victorious troops, 
and with the hope of pacifying the pope, Victor 
Emmanuel, the liberator of the Italian people, 
addressed an affectionate letter to Pope Pius IX, 
calling him 'the chief of Catholicity/ and ex- 
pressing the hope and intention that nothing 
should be done inconsistent 'with the inviolability 
of the sovereign pontiff and of his spiritual au- 
thority, and with the independence of the Holy 
See/ But this kindly spirit was not reciprocated 
by the irascible pope, who excitedly rejected the 
overture of pacification. Thereupon the victori- 
ous troops entered the city of Rome, and termina- 
ted the temporal dominion of the pope, which had 
rested upon the Italian people with crushing 
weight for nearly fourteen hundred years. Then 
the pope, having lost his royal diadem — nothing 
more — and with the view of prescribing it as an 
article that it should be recovered, caused his 
Cardinal Secretary of State to notify Victor Em- 
manuel to that effect. This he did as follows : 

" 'I have the command from His Holiness to de- 
clare, and the undersigned does hereby declare in 



204 Who is the Beast? 

the august name of His Holiness, that such 
usurpation is devoid of all effect, is null and in- 
valid, and that it can never convey any prejudice 
to the indisputable and lawful rights of dominion 
and of possession, whether of the Holy Father 
himself, or of his successors in perpetuity; and, 
although the exercise of these rights may be for- 
cibly prevented and hindered, yet His Holiness 
both knows his rights, intends to conserve them 
in tact, and re-enter at the proper time into their 
actual possessions.' " "Footprints of the Jesuits," 
(pp. 23, 24.) 

The pope remains in the Vatican to this day 
an avowed enemy of the Government of Italy, a 
rival to the king. As we have shown elsewhere, 
he is a supporter of the Germanic empires, and a 
secret enemy of our Allies. Italy refused to enter 
the war till England and France had entered 
into a solemn agreement that no papal representa- 
tive should sit at the peace table. 

Now shall the head of our Republic visit in 
person this unreconstructed autocrat, this enemy 
of democracy? We trust not. Time will tell. 

The writer, with a host of red-blooded Ameri- 
can citizens, felt mortified that our President 
should vi^it the Pope, and not only that, but go 
into secret conference with him, on the occasion 
of his recent visit to Rome. What business has 
the President of the world's greatest democracy 
in secret conference with the medieval autocrat? 



Who is the Beast? 205 

Woodrow Wilson, as president and representative 
of this republic, of the American people, can have 
nothing in common with the Pope of Rome. In 
that call at the Vatican he did not truly represent 
Twentieth Century America, but perhaps Cardi- 
nal Gibbons. If so, Gibbons should pay the bill. 



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